Thread: Need assistance with razor ID

Found this little item at the flea market today. I don't recognize the name and a quick google search came up empty:



It is stamped "W. Picard garantie " on the tang with blade etching that reads "Best Cross Razor". There are no other markings I can find. I would greatly appreciate any info anyone may have. THANKS!

No clue but that razor is NICE.


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Hey there!!

I think that your razor could be rather old. There was a Picard operating in France c.1853! And the fact that garantie means guaranteed/warranted in French sort of backs this up. The shave of the toe of the blade is very European, and the tang and tail are suggestive of an early razor. If this razor doesn't have a country of origin stamped on it that could be further evidence of an early razor. Hope this helps.

Thanks

Carl

Thanks for the info.....The scales are another mystery. They are very dense but have a "rubbery" feel, almost like the old style "hard rubber" handles you find on some cutlery.

Also....here is a close up of the tang stamp:

And the fact that garantie means guaranteed/warranted in French

... or in Dutch.
The owner of ‘CG’ monogram, addorsed and intercutting, registered 1896, no. 18740, was W.Picard.
Located in Kronenberg, Netherlands.

Thanks again, Manah. As a side note, scratched into the (vulcanized?) Scales are the words " Ben-Ahin Chateau" which a quick google search revealed is a chateau (inn?) in Belgium. On the reverse is scratched the name "Louis Carbotte". Looks like i may have the beginnings of a genealogy for this razor.

Good Job Manah! I don't speak Dutch, It's good to know :-)

Some additional info, if anyone is interested:

13/16 half-hollow. The blade etching reads "Best Cross Razor". I've reconsidered the scale material. After comparing it to some vintage vulcanite, the feel is not the same. It has a "slicker" feel than the rubber. Here are some more pics:

Originally Posted by manah

... or in Dutch.
The owner of ‘CG’ monogram, addorsed and intercutting, registered 1896, no. 18740, was W.Picard.
Located in Kronenberg, Netherlands.

Howdy Alexei,

your infos are partially correct... CG Carl Greis, owner of W.PICARD was living & working in Kronenberg, but not in the Netherlands...
He worked at Wuppertal-Kronenberg, back then not yet a suburb of Wuppertal, but a independent village nearby Solingen.
Back then in 1869 until the 1920s Kronenberg was written with "K", today it is written Cronenberg with "C" again at the begin.
There were and there are still today some other PICARD's companies around the area in Cronenberg and the neighbourtown Remscheid.
I own myself two of W.PICARD's straight razors, both very heavy knifes with large blades.





Those straight razors were produced in the late 19th century from 1870 to 1890 and sold until the 1920s.

Hope this helped jfleming9232 to identify his own (very nice) knife.

Greetings from Solingen
Rainer Häusgen