Originally Posted by
ignatz
I'm going to venture an opinion on this one. Feel free to laugh at me if you think it way off base.
Since it is obvious that is in no way a finished razor. It is possible that this was meant as an instructional piece for people learning to grind razors and that it illustrates one of the steps along the way to grinding a blank down into a finished razor. And, if this is so, the handle is only there to serve as a convenient means of keeping this safe in the instruction box.
OK, now you laugh :D
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Weird one, though...