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03-15-2009, 02:14 AM #1Member
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What can you tell me about this Wade & Butcher?
Sorry for the poor quality photo; I took it with my cell phone last night and it looked OK on the little screen.
My friend lives in a house that's an old farm house that has been in his family for generations; while remodeling the bathroom he found this straight razor, in the box, between the walls!
He has no idea which of his relatives it belonged to, or how old it is.
The blade says Wade & Butcher/Sheffield (of course).
Anyone know any specifics about this particular blade?Last edited by mddittman; 03-15-2009 at 03:23 AM.
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03-15-2009, 02:20 AM #2Super Shaver
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Nothing like treasure.
Uniclectica says this:
WADE & BUTCHER
Successor to Robert Wade; succeeded by Butcher, Brown & Butcher
Sheffield
1818-1890 ("Old Sheffield Razors" by Lummus. Antiques, December 1922 p.261-267)
,but I believe somebody used the name into the 20th century. The acid etching might give it a maximum age.
Tell him it's a sign and buy him a strop.
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03-15-2009, 03:15 AM #3what Dad calls me
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Looks pretty good for something thats been trapped in the walls for a number of years, get it honed and lather up.
It is easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled. Twain
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03-15-2009, 05:04 AM #4I Bleed Slurry
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Looks like a keeper to me.
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03-15-2009, 05:22 PM #5Striving for a perfect shave.
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WOW! It looks unused. I agree, hone and shave! I'll add that I never, ever have luck like that.
I strop my razor with my eyes closed.
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03-15-2009, 06:08 PM #6Senior Member
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Can we all come and help you to remove the rest of your walls, to see what other hidden treasures there might be?
Seriously, though, people leave all kinds of neat memorabilia inside walls when doing remodeling. For example, in an old Maryland farmhouse my family lived in, I found an old glass bottle with a colorful label that read Tincture of Opium 10%. It was behind some plastered lathe we were replacing. My family speculated that the owner got hurt during the remodeling and used the patent medicine for pain.
Under some old linoleum in the same house we found a layer of 1922 newspapers, with Roaring Twenties top stories that gave a close up glimpse into another time. We read them for months! The advertising was a hoot.
Fantastic find, and I hope you make other cool discoveries in that house!
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03-15-2009, 10:40 PM #7Natty Boh
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Tell him you'll give him 10 bucks for it
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Greetings , from Dundalk , Maryland . The place where normal people , fear to go .
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03-15-2009, 11:13 PM #8Member
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The razor does look unused.
I thought it had rust on it, but it turned out it was some of the leather or whatever the box was made of that was stuck to the blade. It came off under my fingernail eventually.
Wasn't shave-ready, though.
I wouldn't even offer to buy it off of him... the house has been his family's since it was built and it means a lot more to him than it ever would to me.
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03-16-2009, 08:17 AM #9Super Shaver
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Tell him I'LL give him $20.
Originally Posted by dave5225
Tell him you'll give him 10 bucks for it .
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03-16-2009, 07:33 PM #10Senior Member
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that razor is a piece of sh!t
ill take it off your hands for 10 dollars
hahha im just playing its a beauty take good care of it and she'll take good care of you
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