Thread: New website on Wiss razors: indentification + pictures

I have just finished assembling my new website on Wiss razors. The main page is a key to identification and there are collected pictures of 65 razors, sets and strops.

http://jwissandsons.com/razors/

I don't collect razors. I only have one because it was cheap. But looking over the pictures I see a couple I wish I had bought.

Pictures are welcome from collectors with Wiss razors that take pictures.

Fantastic resource, Don! Thanks for putting the work into that.

I just won a Favourite with the Wiss logo as the one you show on your page. You should be able to get pictures here:
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Unfortunately no leather case...

Do you have any idea about its date of production? You say that the Wiss logo should be younger than the full script that I can find in 1915 catalog, but how much younger?
I am still waiting for it, and'Im very curious about the handle material also.

Originally Posted by Mauri

Do you have any idea about its date of production? You say that the Wiss logo should be younger than the full script that I can find in 1915 catalog, but how much younger?
I am still waiting for it, and'Im very curious about the handle material also.

A decent percentage of the pictures I've collected have logos. Razor production ended mid-1920s. So I would guess that the logo was added shortly after 1915. On the c1915 catalog's title page and back cover the earlier version of the logo appears. It has an anvil with the word Steelforged sitting on top of the cloud.

The earliest example of the simplified logo that I have in ads is 1922. But I don't have any ads for a bunch of years before that (maybe no ads during WWI).

From the catalog I'm under the impression that all the black ones were rubber.

Don.

Thanks for your infos! So we could restrict the production date to ten years, 1915-1925. Cool!
As soon as I get it I will let you know the handle material

Thanks for the great resource. I haven't had a Wiss yet. I was half way looking for the 'right' one .... one that appealed to me aesthetically ... because they made them in Newark, NJ and I was from around there. I seem to remember having a pair of scissors that were Wiss brand but it was a long time ago.

Very nice site with lots of work behind it. Thank you.

Hallo, I finally got it and started cleaning it. It was in very bad conditions, and the cleaning process is not over yet, but it's enough to take a picture for you:



On the reverse of the tang I could very hardly read "J. Wiss & sons" and "Germany" below it. No leather case, alas
The handle is brown, and it smells like hard rubber.
The Favorite in the 1915 catalogue has "Newark, N.J." while this should be made in Germany, can it be that the company marketed blades produced in Germany?
I would show you the reverse tang but the stamp is so faint that my camera can't get it...