Meh, I didn't see anything good. I saw the snakeskin one, the Electric, right? Way too expensive. Their selection is way down and prices way up... Ah the good old days...
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I habe one of them into my colection, they are very comun in Spain, the ones I got, was used by a countryside family acros the time, sure is not a Civil American War, os an Revolucionary War razor, but it provably has mor tan 150 years old, the kind is the same, and I saw more than one, Here the more of them arrived during the last war into Spain and Marroc at the end of the XIX century, but more of them used because in this african country the english victorian razors were comun in that times, but this kind was cheapest and if you buyed a used one better. Provably it was a kind of razors used in orient countries before the victorian times, when the Straigth Razor, the spensive one and the cheap one made this traditional instruments desapear, I canīt say anything abaut the use of this razors in the colonial America but is not imposible, I Got in a rich home an chinesse spectacles without graduated glases only to show them like a status mark, dated in the last years of the XVII century, and we are not used to made transations with china before the "todo a cien" or chinesses shops of the 90s ;)
This is what a Civil War Era straight razor looks like:
Otto & Reynders "Otto & Reynders N. York" 11/8 - Straight Razor Place Wiki
The khukri, sure you know it, was an war weapon of the Ghurka army in the english indian ocupation, and this army were the most terrible of the english empire by their war actions using manly wigth arms, the khukri were quite common like a present carried from Turky of Afganistan or anothe country at the side, I habe one of them modern of course, but not a razor, the Khukri is compossed by a big and half moon form blade knife ussed to kill and open the vegetacion, and two little knifes used to take the skin of the animals Ghurka people hunted, they are quite beautifull but not razors of course