Thread: My new old Whipped Dog Catteraugus. Any thoughts?

I don't know about the razor never been honed before. The honing flats on the spine are very small, but still slightly uneven and the bevel is very small, but I just dislike when people just market up without any evidence whatsoever. Never honed razor means you were the one who opened the sealed package from the factory (and I have had the fortune to do that on a number of old razors, some from the late 1800s).
This one has severe pitting on the blade (most likely makes no difference to the edge and is just cosmetic) and kink at the transition at the heel just looks odd. May be factory made, but from all the vintage razors that I've seen the rule is that the curves and the transitions are smooth.

Finally I wouldn't even base production estimate on those scales. They have obviously been repinned, so who knows if they are the original ones.

Cattaragus cutlery was a family owned business that didn't move or change hands for about 100 years, they simply closed in 1960s when they couldn't compete anymore. May be you can find a catalogue with that blade and then you can have a narrower estimate for the period, but this is a very hollow ground razor with pronounced humped shank so the first part of the 20th century would be when this style is most appropriate.

The curvature of the edge should have nothing to do with honing abuse and be there by design. It is very common with the vintage razors, especially when there was a lot of competition. It's fairly harder to do, so later on it seems to have disappeared and nowadays pretty much all razors are stamped with straight spines and ground with straight edges