Thread: Marshes & Shepherd Ponds Works ~1825-40 Wedge

I see that Altima55 has a razor with that same bolster/spacer pattern up for auction. His razor is stamped Dublin.

Regards - Walt

I have a few M&S and I don't think this 'spacer' is original. I've seen them with bits of copper hammered over, plastic shoved in and god knows what else. The important thing is that this is part of the razor's history - if that's not your concern, get the old scales off, clean up the blade and put some snazzy new scales on - but for my money it would be better to treat this as a historic piece and restore it sympathetically - just remove enough crud to let it work and get the edge sorted, then when you shave think of somone walking out of a shop somewhere with his fine new razor in the 1830's. Wow.