Thread: any info on this razor?

I just purchased a Hilger & sons straight razor on ebay, and was hoping that someone would have some info that they can share with me about this razor. Its date, quality of steel, shave, ect.? It has Hilger & Sons with germany under that stamped on one side of the tang, and the number 2257 on the other side. I'm not sure how to upload pictures of it on here so if anyone can give me advice on that it would be appreciated as well! I don't have digital cam. is it possible to put the pics from ebay on here?

Thanks
Louis.


While looking for info on this razor i found this
"I did not know anything about Hilger & Sons, so I checked my sources and
came up with a few data points. From what I've found, the company was
named after Johann Peter Hilger (1720-1788) and his sons Peter Caspar
Hilger (1747-1803) and Johann Peter Hilger (1752-1816). The first
mention I was able to find (thanks to Google book search) was in a
directory from 1798. You've already found out about the sons, who in
1779 built the house where now the Remscheid tool museum is located.
Hilger & Sons took part in the 1851 London exhibition in a joint venture
with three other Remscheid makers. From this source you can see the
range of tools made by these manufacturers:
http://books.google.com/books?id=2F4YucDjAWcC&pg=PA1085 A German source
about the exhibition lists the tools in more detail and you can see that
dividers ("Zirkel") where among them:
http://books.google.com/books?id=ucNAAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR47

I even found a trademark of Hilger & Sons on a screw box in an ebay
auction some time ago:
http://www.holzwerken.de/pics/hilger_sons_trademark.jpg

And a nice tidbit: One of the files in Duncan Phyfe's toolchest is
marked "Hilger & Sons" (according to the EAIA Chronicle).

I don't know how long this company existed and if Walter Hilger (the
handsaw maker) had anything to do with them."

I don't know such deep history of this company.
But Hilger & Co. is first listed in New York City Directory in 1848.
They were hardware and cutlery importers, at 19 Platt St. They became Hilger & Sons in 1858. In 1864, the firm became Wiebusch & Hilger.

Razor photo from Ebay:

Hilger & Sons was a hardware company that imported razors with their name stamped on the tang. There is no way to know who produced their razors unless their original purchase order was found. They could have been buying razors from one or several of the many German manufacturers of that time. There is no benchmark for quality since the manufacturer is unknown. You will have to be the final judge of how it shaves after you have put it back into serviceable condition. Then you can give us all your critique of its quality and desirability as a shaver.

Regards - Walt

That is the razor i purchased. There was only one other bidder, if it was you sorry. It apears to be in decent shape, we'll see when it gets here in a couple days. I'm new to straight razors, but I'm assuming that $17.25 isn't a bad price for this razor.
Thank you for posting the pictures, because I couldn't figure out how to! Can u post the picture of the other side of the tang with #2257 on it?

Appreciate your responses

Louis.