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This gorgeous specimen went through eBay a little while back. I was outbid, but nabbed the pictures from the auction page before they died of bit rot.

The blade says 'Manufactured for Richard Plummer Baltimore'.

Richard Plummer of Baltimore was a successful business man and prominent Quaker. Whether this was a trade model used to sell more Colley razors, or made specifically for Richard Plummer's use, I do not know. I've been unable to find anything about what sort of business Mr. Plummer did (though I do know he sold books). He was related to Johns Hopkins. The razor was probably made at some point between 1830 and 1840 which seems to be about when Mr. Plummer first came to prominence, though he lived into the 1870's.

His wife, Elizabeth Hicks, was the daughter of the American folk painter Edward Hicks, another famous Quaker.