Quote Originally Posted by Silvio View Post
Hello! My first post here, quite obviously. In the past few months I've abandoned multi-bladed razors, picked up a double edge, and was looking for a straight razor. As theoretical-luck would have it, I wound up acquiring these when we cleaned out my grandmother's house in preparation for her estate sale. Due to the large size of the pictures, I'm simply going to provide links to each of them. The first one is black, and has "United Special" "Guaranteed English Steel" printed upon it, and appears to be in the original box. The second is in a box marked "Jas. J. Scott. Warranted. Hand Forged" The second one is a tad more mystery to me: the letters of the manufacturer have been worn off, and "Razor Co. XLNT" (The XLNT appears below the Razor Co, which curves above it. I believe that, if the whole manufacturer's name was there, it would curve like a rainbow over the XLNT. My apologies for the crappy simile.) There are the faded remains of part of the end of the manufacturer's name on the blade, and previously I had thought them to say "ORTIER" but looking now it looks more like "ORTH," though what letters I see seem to change every time I look. Can you guys tell me anything about these blades? Also, my mother thinks that the second one is an actual ivory handle, but someone I sent the pictures to seemed to think it was most likely faux-ivory. Thank you in advance for anything/everything you can tell me about these, by the way.

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The more important thing is not the maker of these razors,but who's razors they were? If they belonged to a member of your family you just stumbled upon precious family heirlooms to pass down to your sons and their sons.So get busy and get those razors in shaving mode.That is one great find! CONGRATS!!