Thread: W&B, Packwood and a Joseph Smith and Sons

My three oldies I found on the bay. I'm planning on just wiping these down and then mounting them inside a shadowbox for the bathroom. I'm hoping someone here can shed some light on these for me. I can't seem to find any kind of info on Packwood for instance. By the design of the tail I'd say it's quite old looking at the wiki page (http://straightrazorpalace.com/srpwi...r#Point_styles). Then there's the Wade and Butcher. Shoulderless faux frameback with a spanish point. I've never seen another like it and I've been searching up and down. So if anyone has any info I'd super appreciate it. Anyways, here come's the pics. Oh yeah. One more thing. This is the first time I've screwed around with a light box and my wife's camera so please excuse the cruddy pics. I've got a long way to go to learn photography

The Wade & Butcher







The Packwood

The Joseph Smith and Sons

Woah, those are some very old razors you have there.

Those first two are definitely older than the third. I would guess early 1800's. W&B is, of course, a well known name. Not sure about the origins of the Packwood - I thought packwood was a type of wood... Joseph Smith & Sons - I like their razors. I've had a few and found they tended to be harder steel than the average Sheffield blade, but still great shavers. Too bad to hear they are going into a shadow box instead of a rotation. If you are going to put them in your bathroom, please be sure to guard against rust (oil, Tuffglide, etc) so they'll survive their stay.

Holli I think you nudged me over the edge with your comment. I've been going back and forth with the Joseph smith and sons razor. Whether or not to try and bring her back and in fact use her in my rotation. So I think I'll go ahead and give her my best shot. The other two are just too darned good looking the way they are and ought to make great conversation pieces. I was thinking of hiding desiccants in the shadow box as well as treating them with tuff glide. Do you think that'll do the trick?

I can't say for sure. In my bathroom, I have no vent and I take long, hot showers. For me, the answer is most definitely not. When I visited Lynn, I was amazed to see lots of razors in his bathroom. He said he can either leave the door open or turn on his vent and they are fine. I was naturally paranoid, so I turned on the vent and left the door open.

In short, you'll have to see, but please please be safe rather than sorry.

I most definitely will. Thanks

I wouldn't stress too much over it. If you're not going to be using them for shaving, I'd simply put a light coating of mineral oil on each of them and try to keep them away form excessive moisture. I mean, you've got to consider that those first two razors have already lasted just shy of two-hundred years (ballpark). Plus, they're a little rusted as-is.

I keep my razors in a wooden medicine cabinet in my bathroom, and I initially thought that the moisture in the air, especially after showers, would find its way in there. To my surprise, it didn't. So if you have a similar setup, you could always keep them in there and they'd be fine. They're really nice razors. I'd be proud to own any of them!

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Here is one I have. All it says is packwood. Could it b ivery? It's too bad it's chipped but the scales are nice.

Another pic it's chipped bad saving the scales for another razor.
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