Thread: Calling on the historical experts, I'm stumped! An unassuming mystery razor.

Maybe a contract razor. I have several that have either the Wostenholm pipe, Boker tree or von Brossi anchors and another company's name. It's actually fairly common. A hardware store, cosmetics or barber supply company wants their own branded razors so they buy them fron an established cutler who puts their name on it but also puts their own logo like a dog hiking his leg on it.

Now if the other company was also a manufacturer instead of a supply house then that's a little more interesting but perhaps it is a collaboration I.don't know that I have ever seen one, at least not a straight, but stranger thing have happened.

Originally Posted by PaulFLUS

Now if the other company was also a manufacturer instead of a supply house then that's a little more interesting but perhaps it is a collaboration I.don't know that I have ever seen one, at least not a straight, but stranger thing have happened.

Although... I seem to remember that Wade & Butcher, late in their production history, made razors also with another manufacuterer's name on the back side of the blade and sold in their line but I can't seem to remeber who or find a reference to it.

I have read everywhere that at that time, that is to say 1820 / 30, the London cutlers were supplied in Sheffield. This famous steel marked with the Sanskrit symbol exploited by David Stodart may have been sold to other cutlers