Thread: razor id help ...?

Hi All -
I wonder if anyone recognizes this logo (below)? I bought this baby on ebay (surprise, surprise)... and now I think it's one of my favorite razors (not that I have a lot of experience - mais non!). So I'm curious...

Also, any ideas why someone would (beautifully, actually) erase the rest of the writing?

Thanks!
Shuka

Cutlery Companies will often obliterate or put crosses over their logo when it doesn't meet their standards and sometimes let them go as seconds. It is usually a minor defect that does not affect usage. In this case it looks like the maker of the straight put a hardware Co name on the tang. Maybe the hardware co rejected it for some reason or there was a misspelling.

+1 to what Mark said. When the great tobacco pipe company Charatan was going out of business all of the logos on their pipes were stamped over with Xs. You see them on ebay from time to time. Not sure about the razor but what Mark said is likely correct.

Could also be a case of something to do with Germany, and then because of a certain world event, a lot of MI Germany things became very unpopular, and this would not be the first razor I've seen "modified" to reflect that. Actually at one point Red Point razors had a tang stamping that explicitly ranted (in very small letters) that it was "the REAL Red Point, made in the USA and NOT made in Germany". Yes. They wrote all that on the tang, give or take a word here or there.

Looks Like Marshall Wells Hardware Co., started in 1893 at Duluth, sold in 1959 and out of business in 1963.

Originally Posted by Neil Miller

Looks Like Marshall Wells Hardware Co., started in 1893 at Duluth, sold in 1959 and out of business in 1963.

Ah! Now that chopped up writing makes sense. Maybe you can decipher what's on the other side...
Thanks Neil,
Shuka

Because they appear tobe machine made marks and given the above information, you have a rough Manufacturing date of the blade aswell somewhere between 59 and 65-ish