Thread: To whom does this pipe belong?

I was considering Webster as well, with the same objection... In effect this razor comes from Hungary, it might be continental... The marks by the scales seemed intentional to me, in the first moment, but then I looked at them with a magnifying glass and I could not find any shape in them, that's why I thought they were due to corrosion. There is a similar mark on the other side, also covered by the scales, and it has no particular shape as well. Couldn't they be due to some working procedure?

Hi Mauri - yes, they could be due to something unintentional, maybe caused by how the pivot hole was struck, for example. It would have been done at the same time as the makers mark was struck - before the final heat treatments - by a hardened steel spike. If there was some upraised area on the anvil, for instance, the force of the hammer blow driving the spike through the tang could also pick up the marks on the anvil, causing indentation/s on the other side.

Even the way the spike was made or held could cause it: it could be a simple spike held by tongs that were too low down and came into contact with the tang, or from a 'T' shaped spike that had worn down enough to let the supporting bar hit the tang.

In your pic they do look quite deep though. If they were makers marks they could have lost some clarity when the tang was reground to its final shape and polished...

Interesting!

Regards,
Neil

The shape of it and since it is upside down for a pipe. I would say it's a candle snuffer, used to put out a lit candle.

What if it's really a Golf Club! Who was making razors and playing the Golf in Scotland back then?? It opens up a whole new avenue of inquire!!