Thread: Some pages from old catalog.

Originally Posted by John Crowley

Hibbard, Spencer & Bartlett became True Value Hardware.

Yes. Approximately since 1960. But the trademark "True Value" was used by Hibbard, Spencer & Bartlett since 1930.

And back then the ivory scales tripled the price.

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One more pages from old catalogs.
http://manah.strazors.com/1902_1904.pdf

manah,
Thanks for these.

I think the Boker and Genco page (page 468 in the above link) is from 1917. I haven't seen the Genco pennant stamp prior to 1916 in my google research the last few days.
see here: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...fvi%3D1&_rdc=1

Of course you couldn't see.
Genco in business since 1916.
The page in the file above, most likely, from the catalog 1922.
I have one.

Alex have you seen anything to help with this thread????

http://straightrazorpalace.com/razor...ers-notch.html


Thanks

Thanks Manah! Just to put the razor dollar prices in perspective, in 1899 "Any man who is making 30 dollars a week is making good money!". Quote is from the novel "Penrod" by Booth Tarkington. So, a $3.00 razor then would cost $80 today, if the worker earns $800 per week.

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I've posted this catalog half year ago in the WIKI. But I think many people didn't see it.
Really rare pages from Soviet Russian catalog of razors made by "Trud".
http://manah.strazors.com/vacha.pdf

Originally Posted by gssixgun

Alex have you seen anything to help with this thread????

http://straightrazorpalace.com/razor...ers-notch.html


Thanks

There is a W&B with a notch described as a "hollow point".

I also find it interesting that replacement scales are called handles.

Have we made up some terms that are non-traditional? Seems so.

Scales is a very traditional term. The Sheffield directory for 1857 list many manufacturers of horn scales for the cutlery industry. Incidentally, there are 106 razor manufacturers listed in the Sheffield area at that time. Since only a few are the well-known makers (Butcher, Reynolds, Rodgers, Wostenholm, etc.) the remainder must have been responsible for the many "no-name" razors that appear from that era.

Regards - Walt