Thread: Identification help, can this be a TI?

Hello everyone,

I have bought a razor and wondering whether any of you can tell something about it. It doesn't have any marks at all on the tang. What it has is etching on the blade as shown in the pictures. I have only seen such etching on TI razors but never on both sides as this razor has. That said I am a newbie and haven't seen a lot of different razors. Does it look familiar to anyone?

all the best

Welcome to SRP.
First razor looks like T-I.
About second one, I don't know.

Originally Posted by manah

Welcome to SRP.
First razor looks like T-I.
About second one, I don't know.

It's only the one razor Manah. Possibly it's a TI then do you think?


Mick

Thats true and apologies I was not clear enough. It's a single razor with etching on both sides.

One razor?
Very nice. Not often you can see the razor with etching on both sides.

by the way I will very much appreciate any advice on how to clean this razor without destroying the etching.

If you don't have to actually regrind the blade, the etching should remain. The gold, however, will be gone.

The wolf and ram logo was made by TI for a specific retailer but if they don't own it anyone could use it. I've never seen a razor with etching on both sides like that. That's very strange.

Very interesting razor, craniopath.

I have seen both etchings on TI razors, but not on the same razor. IIRC, the buffalo etch is for a European dealer. It might be a French dealer, but I am not confident enough in my memory to definitely say French so I will say European for sure.

Please post pictures when you are done with it.


Wonder if it was a setup blade for the etching process and someone snuck it out instead of destroying it. Or maybe the QC department was not at top form on the third Friday of November...

It's really just a pretext for a party. The third Thursday of November is Le Beaujolais Nouveau Est Arrivè time. On this particular day, at the stroke of midnight, that bewitching hour when coaches turn into pumpkins and wolves howl at the moon, millions of bottles of fresh Beaujolais wine are uncorked and imbibed in celebration.


Laissez le bon temps roullez!

Thanks everyone for your messages. I have sent an email to Thiers Issard, their website is harder to locate than I would expect. Anyhow the response is this should either be a test razor or just a production error and should neve have left the factory. It is made of history steel and probably left the factory around or before 1995. Now I certainly need to save those etchings during cleaning