Thread: Please Help me I.D. This Razor

It's an ERN with the eagle and snake trademark.

Originally Posted by Monty

It's an ERN with the eagle and snake trademark.

I think Monty cracked the code, and I think it is a factory reject of some kind. Look very very closely at the first pic under the cross hatch. I believe I see a backwards E before the R N. I would have thought the brand would have been imprinted from one ERN stamp. If my eyes are not deceiving me and someone screwed up and turned a single E stamp upside down, then I would think it would indicate that the stamping was done with singular letter dies?

Interesting stuff.

Chris L

I don't know if the "E" is backwards. The left side of the letter could just be lost in the cross hatching.

Originally Posted by Monty

I don't know if the "E" is backwards. The left side of the letter could just be lost in the cross hatching.

In the second picture, the "RN" are viewed as upside down. The "E" is the right most letter and is backwards/facing incorrectly to the upside down "RN".

Chris L

Chris, you're right. How interesting!

I agree, it's interesting. I would guess the cross hatching was done at the factory. It seems too coincidental that a defectively stamped razor would be sold by ERN and then some buyer of the razor would take the time to add the cross hatching. So, what I find interesting is whether that cross hatching was filed manually hatch line by hatch line or was is a single die/stamp? If it was done by hand with a file, why in the name of anything would a company waste even a relatively small amount of time to cross hatch a production razor? I find that curious.

Chris L

i just wanna know what year the razor was made in or around what year it was my grandfathers, and my mother passed it to me when i asked a few weeks back if my father had any straights laying around...she said she has more but has to look for them! i hope i hope she has more! also i've been looking on some web pages and there is not much info that i can find on this company...where would you recommend looking for the info?? thanks for all the input about this razor that means so much to me!