Shaving and Razors in Eighteenth Century Britain

Here is an extremely interesting and informative article that covers the early evolution from barber shop to self-shaving and the advances in metallurgy that enabled the development of the razor as we know it today. The opening illustration shows the "Cheap Razor Merchant" being confronted by an angry bloody-faced customer complaining about the uselessness of a piece of crap razor. He asks, "What did you make this for?" And the smiling merchant says, "For sale, of course." Seems like nothing ever changes!

Regards - Walt

Nice reading and very informative.Thanks for posting it!

thanks for the link, very interesting reading.

Great stuff, Walt - thanks for posting it!

Regards,
Neil

Hi on my iPhone it won't let me access without signing in with a University affiliation. I'm I doing something wrong?
Johnus

I don't know how those iPhone thingys work. (Still wish I had my old rotary dial.) I went back to that site and attempted to download the data and I was refused permission, but I can still read the article on the website. Perhaps your iPhone thingy is attempting to download the article and it is being denied. Someone with more technical accumen than me may be able to figure it out. [I was at a flea market yesterday and a +- 15-year-old girl was looking at an old standard black rotary set and asked her father if he knew how it worked. . . . Really made me feel old]

Regards - Walt

Interesting read.

Great read and very illuminating! Thanks for posting this.

THank you for posting this. It is interesting read.

I have a Savigny razor made in England. Tortoise shell and a small blade. Still in very good condition.

Very interesting. Thanks for posting the article.

Yes. I tried again. I just must have taken a very long time to download the program that allowed me to download the article. Thank you.

Very interesting, who would have thought I've been wantonly engaging in auto-pogonotomy...and in front of my wife at times!

Some chicks dig auto-pogonotomy. :o