Thread: Anyone recognize this mark?

Looks like a wostenholm pipe with bone scales that i would wager are replacements. the pins just appear odd and the blade is falling through the bottom... rather unsafe and you might want to address that before honing it. fingers are expensive, scales are not.

Wait for manah to take a look at it. IIRC there was another maker back then with a similar marque besides Wostenholme.

Originally Posted by Mauri

It looks like mine, which you can find here: http://straightrazorpalace.com/razor...pe-belong.html
We couldn't find a certain attribution, so I recorded it in my collection file as "Continental Pipe". Also the mark that follows the pipe resembles the one on mine, but in my razor it is below the handle so I can't see it... Would you be so kind to post a picture with the detail of that mark?
Mine also is very thin, and shorter than usual.
Also the scales are very similar... Did they have a dark brown/red waving pattern before you cleaned them?

I will try to get a good picture of the additional mark. It just doesn't turn out well in pictures for some reason. The scales are as I recieved them. I haven't cleaned them. The marks on our two razors look very similar.

Originally Posted by syslight

Looks like a wostenholm pipe with bone scales that i would wager are replacements. the pins just appear odd and the blade is falling through the bottom... rather unsafe and you might want to address that before honing it. fingers are expensive, scales are not.

Yeah, it really bothers me that the blade hangs out the bottom like that. The scales look like a total amateur job. If I pull the blade up so that it doesn't hang out the bottom, the toe sticks way up. The blade shape really requires curved scales for a good fit.

SpreadSpectrum, welcome to SRP.

The Wostenholm pipe was apparently in use for a very long time (1694 I've read).

You understood wrong.
The Pipe trademark was used since 1694. Wostenholm company acquired the Pipe trademark from William Hutchinson only(!) in 1843.
So. The earliest Wostenholm pipe razors could be made in 1843.
Try to clean the razor stamp. Most likely, it's the similar razor:
http://straightrazorpalace.com/razor...pe-belong.html

I'll clean it some and post some more pictures later. What's the best way to clean active rust from the inside of a mark like that?

Oh, and I didn't mean to imply that Wostenholm used the pipe starting in 1694, only that the pipe they used has been around that long.

the first thing that came to my mind was some sort of pipe...cool razor though

First time I ever saw that symbol I thought it was a candle snuffer. :P

Okay, I finally got this de-pinned and cleaned up the mark a bit. It looks like it could be a stylized 'MB'. Does that mean anything to anyone?

Interesting ....