Thread: Civil war razor? Really?

Originally Posted by tonybuddha

It seems that's a hotspot for razors. Bin 676 has a lot of potential. Where do they find these things? Are they recycled ebay specials? I don't get it.

There was also a snakeskin scale razor from...Germany? I don't remember.

We're probably too far off topic, but any other good spots around here?

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...

Originally Posted by holli4pirating

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...

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 can´t 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

Originally Posted by PLanzaSr1957

I concur!
I own one - a more modern version - and it's a Khukri, alright.

I am NOT a Ghurka, BTW.

I am not either, but I do love their pickles...Not the same guys?

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

Khukuri/Kukri


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kukri