Thread: Thiers-Issard razor find

The easiest razor to make half-decent from my £15 haul of 4 razors this week is the Thiers-Issard. This polished up fairly well although a rust spot has left a pit at the toe end. This hopefully will be just visible in my picture. The pit leaves a dull area almost suggesting that the metal was plated...this is a serious razor I assume and not some souvenir (I am new to this game!). The razor is light at 45g with a blade of 9/16. I think the scales are bakelite. The blade is stamped (I think) with Sheffield Best Silver Steel Guaranteed although the tang is marked Thiers-Issard Made in France.

Great deal. That one alone for that money wouldn't be bad (judging from the photo anyway). What are the others?

Yeah, I put this in the Newbies section but I got 3 vintage Solingen items: Puma 89, Edelstahl "Solingen" and what looks like Pass "Hamburg Ring". Pretty grubby but probably easily restored by someone with experience. There are limited rust spots and the blades themselves are undamaged. I'll post pictures after I clean them up a bit.

With the TI alone you made out like a burglar. Great find!

A new TI alone would cost you ten times what you paid.
Where, If I may ask did you "find" them.
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It was like this! I returned to wet shaving and DE razors a year or so ago after 25 yrs away (cartridges!). Firmly in the grip of the acquisition syndrome for vintage DE razors I scoured the antique shops of the Scottish Borders and the city of Edinburgh. Generally I found straight razors were more common then DE razors. While investigating a junk/antique shop in the city I drew a blank on the DEs but the guy in charge (?) of the shop (an absolute glory hole with everything from stuffed birds to anvils) revealed a drawer of straight razors from which on this occasion I picked the best, a virtually unblemished Spanish razor mentioned elsewhere which I found bore microscopic pawnbroker's marks scratched into the surface.

Very recently I was seized by a sudden addiction to the straight razor, arising from looking at the beautiful restorations pictured in SRP and the interesting posts from the members. So I returned to the glory hole to find everything as it was and I rescued the razors I have mentioned from their grubby resting place.

Nice haul, sir!

Originally Posted by igitur55

Nice haul, sir!

Or should it be, "your lordship"?