Thread: Is this really a razor?

Originally Posted by sharpedge

Hi Dave, thanks for the reply. I know what you're saying but, the point Neumann was making is that it was used as a double duty tool. You haven't answered my question though about why this exact razor is in his book of things used by the American Colonial soldier.

By the time of the American Revolution, Europeans had been trading with China for a couple hundred years. They could have brought back the razors or designed their own based off of the Chinese ones. I just know that I've seen them used in documentaries about Buddhism and it was said that some of the razors being used were 300+ years old.

SMKW sells them , and claims they're Chinese , and date from the late 19th to the early 20th century .