Thread: Help identifying 7/8" please

I found this 7/8-13/16" half hollow razor at a local antique shop. The name is worn off, as is any etching that may have been on the blade, with the exception of "hollow ground razor" on the blade and "ERY CO." from the tang. I am a little scared that the blade has been ground short because the scales have been shortened and redrilled after they broke at some point in time. I think the name on the tang is something with "CUTLERY CO." in it. If anybody has any idea what this is I would greatly appreciate some insight.

I'd like to buy a vowel?

Ha, really going out on a limb here I know. Hoping somebody will recognize the blade style or something.

How long is the blade from the toe to the toe side of the first stabilizer?

Why not scroll through the straight razor wiki?

I'm tempted to think that first line reads something like:

"Xxxxxxxxx Cutlery Co."

and the second line could (conceivably) be...

"(Made in) SOLINGEN"

Utopian: the length from toe to inside stabilizer is just barely shy of 2.75".

Kees: I have looked through the lists of names I could find, from the wiki and here Straight Razor Manufacturers and Dates of Operation and I came up with:

BINGHAMPTON CUTLERY CO.
M.L. BRANDT CUTLERY CO.
BROCH & THIEBES CUTLERY CO.
BURRELL CUTLERY CO.
COLUMBIA CUTLERY CO.
CONTINENTAL CUTLERY CO
ALEXANDER COPPEL CUTLERY CO
CRANDALL CUTLERY CO
DOMINION CUTLERY CO.
EXCELSIOR CUTLERY CO.
FLAGG CUTLERY
GEM CUTLERY CO.
GENEVA CUTLERY CO.
GOLDEN RULE CUTLERY CO. (G.R.C.)
HONELESS RAZOR & CUTLERY CO.
LAFAYETTE CUTLERY CO
MANHATTAN CUTLERY CO
NORTHFIELD CUTLERY CO.
ONTARIO CUTLERY CO.
PAL CUTLERY CO.
PEERLESS CUTLERY CO.
PERFECTION CUTLERY CO.
POUGHKEEPSIE CUTLERY WORKS
QUALITY BARBER SUPPLY & CUTLERY CO
JOHN RUSSELL CUTLERY CO.
SHUMATE CUTLERY CO
SOUTH BEND CUTLERY CO
SYRACUSE CUTLERY CO
TAYLOR BROS CUTLERY CO
THOMPSON RAZOR & CUTLERY CO
TIDIOUTE CUTLERY CO
TIPTON CUTLERY CO
UTICA CUTLERY CO
WASHINGTON CUTLERY CO
WILBERT CUTLERY CO
JACOB WISS CUTLERY CO.
A. WITTE CUTLERY CO
YANKEE CUTLERY CO

As you can see, there are quite a few that fit the Cutlery CO. template. I am hoping that not a whole lot of companies made blades that were this wide. But I don't know enough about enough companies to speculate one way or the other.