This is what it looked like before i cleaned it up, if it helps....
The razor does have jimps, top and bottom.
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This is what it looked like before i cleaned it up, if it helps....
The razor does have jimps, top and bottom.
Browse Photos photo
It looks definitely (to me :D ) an 1820-1830 razor (most probably reground).
EDIT: thanks for providing additional pics!
EDIT2: that kind of "big" lower jimps is really frequent on 1820-1830 blades.
clavichord, May be, you are right. But wherefore did somebody make reground?
Rodgers WR(1830-1837).
Thanks Manah/clavichord.
Nice to finally get a score and not a dud from the 'bay:)
Thanks, manah and Slartibartfast, for the links. Discussions like this one (all GR/WR and Rodgers blades!) are really useful to uderstand the evolution of shapes and tastes [this is what I mean, saying that connection between info is more important than the info]. Maybe this part of the discussion should be separed from the first one to make easier to find it.
Thanks you, for interesting discussion. In such conversations the true is born.=))
In my search on Hallmarks I found The Ken Hawley Collection Trust which is part of the University of Sheffield. In the trust they have 10 "Open Razors" which they date and describe at length.
https://www.shef.ac.uk/hawley/collec...zor-intro.html
In one description the WR mark is described: (I italicized and bolded the text.)
DATE - Joseph Rodgers and Sons were at No 6 Norfolk Street from the early years of the 19th century until the mid-20th century. WR is William Rex, William IV, 1830-1837
William Rex. Now I understand the R.