Results 1 to 10 of 10
  1. #1
    In search of a rising tide nightbreed's Avatar
    Join Date
    Oct 2008
    Location
    Asker, Norway
    Posts
    449
    Thanked: 951

    Default Robinson & Thompson, Universally, approved razor, Saint John N.B

    Anybody with info on this maker/cutlery distributor?

    Name:  111667699_1.jpg
Views: 418
Size:  44.8 KB

    Name:  111667699_4.jpg
Views: 404
Size:  27.3 KB

    Amund.

  2. #2
    Senior Member blabbermouth nicknbleeding's Avatar
    Join Date
    Oct 2009
    Location
    Springfield,Ma
    Posts
    3,145
    Thanked: 1285

    Default

    Oh WOW! You should have warned me first. Those are beautiful!

  3. #3
    Senior Member nipper's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jun 2010
    Location
    Chapel Hill,NC
    Posts
    709
    Thanked: 262

    Default

    That's a beautiful pair of razors! I have a Robinson,not a Robinson and Thompson. It's a Sheffield but thats all I know.

  4. #4
    Senior Member blabbermouth Joed's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jun 2008
    Location
    Upstate NY
    Posts
    5,003
    Thanked: 1827

    Default

    Beautiful razors! Sorry I can't help with any info though. Have you honed them up and shaved with them yet? I would have had those honed the moment I was near my gear, LOL. Hope you get to enjoy them for many years.
    “If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got.” (A. Einstein)

  5. #5
    Senior Member MileMarker60's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2010
    Location
    TN
    Posts
    500
    Thanked: 310

    Default

    Like the others, I can't really help. But, I got to say those look fantastic...
    enjoy.

  6. #6
    Senior Member
    Join Date
    Aug 2010
    Posts
    242
    Thanked: 45

    Default

    I've heard that they are not that great of razors...so I'll do you a favor and reluctantly take them off of your hands for you.

  7. #7
    Never a dull moment hoglahoo's Avatar
    Join Date
    Feb 2008
    Location
    Tulsa, OK
    Posts
    8,922
    Thanked: 1501
    Blog Entries
    1

    Default

    send them to me so I can get a closer look
    Find me on SRP's official chat in ##srp on Freenode. Link is at top of SRP's homepage

  8. #8
    Senior Member ignatz's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jun 2007
    Location
    Belgium
    Posts
    298
    Thanked: 312

    Default

    I'm sorry that I cannot give you any information, but let me say that those are very handsome razors. A lucky find, indeed!

    Although it doesn't show in your photograph, it seems that the shell decoration is riveted onto a metal backing to form the scales. This leads me to wonder if the metal end plates (through which the nose and pivot pins pass) is part of that metal backing or added onto it.

    Some extra photos for the curious would be appreciated

  9. #9
    Senior Member blabbermouth
    Join Date
    Apr 2008
    Location
    Essex, UK
    Posts
    3,816
    Thanked: 3164

    Default

    They are a pair of beauties!

    Robinson & Thompson were merchants in New Brunswick, Canada. The New Brunswick Courier for July 1842 states:

    MESSRS. ROBINSON & THOMPSON beg respectfully to announce to the gentry and inhabitanats of Saint John [...] that they intend opening in a few days with a choice selection of watches, jewlery [sic] cutlery, [...] Sheffield goods [...] selected by themselves in England which they will offer [...]

    So, the razors are from Sheffield, England, and have been stamped-up with R&T's mark.

    Regards,
    Neil

  10. #10
    Senior Member johnmrson's Avatar
    Join Date
    Dec 2009
    Location
    Sunshine Coast, Australia
    Posts
    1,590
    Thanked: 311

    Default



    Wow, they are beautiful. Nice find.

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •