Thread: Need som help identifying this .

Hi. my name is Bjoern and i´m new to this forum. I have some straights (about 20 or so), but there is one that i´m having hard to identify.Could some one please help me with this one? On blade I think is written OLD English but it´s almost gone .

Can you make more close photo of the trademark? Is it a anchor? I know only 2 manufacture who have anchor in their trademarks.

1. Wester&Butz, Wester Bros, Jacoby & Wester 1832-1966



2. Carl Rader

HI Bonbon. I´m allmost certain that it´s not a Wester bros since the anchor hasn´t got a star and an arrow.
And it doesn´t look like a Carl Rader either, no crossed flags. Just an anchor and the text on spine which probably says --- --glish (could be old English but I´m not sure.

Maybe something like this one?

Pretty sure it just means it was made in Birmingham:

http://straightrazorpalace.com/razor...sovereigns.htm

Well I guess I have to settle with that. Made in Birmingham. Anyway it´s an old-timer but it shaves really good.
Thank´s a lot for the help on this one.

Originally Posted by Martin103

Maybe something like this one?

that is the first W7B i have seen with and anchor

As far as an anchor signifying Birmingham - unless the razor was made of a precious metal than it would not carry an assay office mark. Only gold, silver, platinum etc have to be assayed.

The mark on the picture Martin has posted is a simple Wade & Butcher mark, of which there were quite a number, some with slight variations. For example, the one below is the W Goodlad anchor that Wade and Butcher used next to a more familiar Wade & Butcher mark from a 1919 trade catalogue:



There is no rope entwined in either of the two photographs in the above postings, which just goes to show that the maker altered his mark a little according to whim. The anchor is the makers registered mark, NOT an assay office mark, much less a signifier of the Birmingham Assay Office.

Incidentally, assay office marks, FWIW, do not necessarily mean that the article was made in the area - it could have been a piece of unhallmarked imported jewellery that was sent to an assay office for hallmarking, or simply a piece made by a jeweller in another part of the country that happened to be sent to an assay office in another part of the country for whatever reason.

Regards,
Neil