Thread: Old Razor Catalog

I bought these pages from Ebay. They are from 1892 and 1893 hardware catalogs. I think they may be useful in dating your old razors. Pictured are some Wostenholm, W&B, B. Worth & Sons, and Bengall razors. Also pictured is a really neat case for collecting razors and holds a dozen razors.

I've also created a PDF of the images in a larger size if more detail is wanted. It is available here.

If there is a better way to present these pages please let me know.

Randy

that 12 razor case is really cool!

Don't you wish the prices were still good? It's amazing how many of these razors are still readily available.

If I can figure out how to best do it I think it would be neat to frame each page with one or more of the real razors if I can find enough of them. So far I have the Bengall, a Wostenholm, and one of the W&Bs. I think I've seen the Slasher one here a long time ago, but I imagine they would be hard to find
Randy

I am glad to see that our forefathers had sense enough to call a 3/4 a 3/4 and a1/2 a 1/2 instead of 6/8 and 4/8!
Neat stuff! Thank you for posting it!!

That is neat that you posted that. I honestly can say that I find it surprising that razors are sold "by the dozen". I wonder to whom they were marketing razors "by the dozen". Barbers? Not even a mention of what the razors cost individually. Strange (to me).

Kind of blows some of our theories about 7 day sets being luxury items for the rich and other such theories huh?

So you walk up to the counter and say "I'd like 7 Wostenholms. Here's $8, keep the change." I wonder what honing cost? 20 cents instead of 20 dollars? Lynn wouldn't like that would he.

Randy

Just to put it in prospective a good paying job at that time would of been $40.00 a mounth.

These were probably shave ready out of the box wouldn't that be nice?

Thanks for the information. I was able to identify
my great grandfather's Wade & Butcher. I
just thought it was some no name brand because
all it had was the symbol on it with no writing.

John