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Thread: Clauss USMC question
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06-23-2009, 12:29 AM #1
Mine does not have USMC on the blade either. I have not touched it since acquiring it from eBay. Someday I will make it shave and shine again!
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06-23-2009, 12:39 AM #2
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06-23-2009, 01:39 AM #3
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Thanked: 346There were two Clauss USMC razors. The ones with the USMC on the blade are usually in much worse shape, and the ones with the USMC on the tang tend to be much cleaner, with mint examples fairly common. My belief is the ones with the USMC on the blade were made for the build-up for the spanish-american war andthe phillippines campaign, and the ones with USMC on the shank were made for WWII.
I don't have hard data to back this up mind you - just that the marines have always run on a shoestring budget and the only two events that I can think of that would have been big enough to provide them with a budget for thousands of USMC-marked razors and would also have occurred at the right time for the stylistic details on those two razors.
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06-23-2009, 03:54 AM #4
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06-23-2009, 03:57 AM #5
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Thanked: 10As I look closer at the listing, it looks to me as though there is some flaking of something on the edge below the M and C. Are my eyes deceiving me, or is this a point of concern?
Kevin
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06-23-2009, 04:03 AM #6
Not a great pic but the bevel looks OK to me.
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06-23-2009, 05:31 AM #7
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i didn't know such a razor was out there
i now need one