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09-13-2012, 02:53 PM #1
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09-13-2012, 08:14 PM #2
That is a very good option indeed, it found his name a time ago, but I've got stuck on the fact that he mostly produced chirurgical instruments, could it possibly be that it is an instrument? It would be fantastic to see resembling pictures... This is the only other picture one I've googled, without info...
Very very much pleased with your research!
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09-16-2012, 01:42 PM #3
Some great info yet again, Neill. Just one modification, "la Haye" means "Den Haag" in Dutch, which in English would be "The Hague", in the west of The Netherlands, in the province of South-Holland, and is situated only about 60 km south-west of Amsterdam (also, rather archaicly, known as 's Gravenhage).
I also, possibly falsely, assume they were related. There might have been two Bastet-firms active at the same time (calling for the T.F. distinction) or one cmoved from The Hague to Amsterdam and continued where the other left off. They are relatively close.
Or it may just be a coincidence that two Bastets supplied razors in close vicinity of each other during the same century.
A lot of razor manufacturers also produced all kinds of knives and woodworking tools, E.A. Berg among others (E.A. Berg chisels still fetch a nice price at auctions). I assume many manufacturers in other countries may have done the same.Last edited by Pithor; 09-16-2012 at 01:51 PM.
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09-16-2012, 02:46 PM #4
Interesting!Was ' sGravenhage the old name for Amsterdam?
I found the coöperation of Thomas Francois Bastet and Thomas Francois Bastet junior with the start of the firm in Amsterdam in 1881 with trademarks T.F. Bastet and T.F.Bastet Jr.,
Before the this date there is a anouncement of the death of Francois Daniel Bastet in 1864, he was a (surgical) instrument and knife maker in Den Haag
Also there ar several advertisements of Bastet razors in Indonesian newspapers, "JAVA bode", "de locomotief", 1872,1876,1877
and Bastet penknives in 1855,1865
There is much information and also so little...
Like I tried to say, I want to find as much as information as possible so I can say with relative accuracy who the maker of my razor was,
I know that the manufacterers made other things than razors, but it's hard to find reall evidence of some manufactures that the made actually razors also, and mutch harder sill to find pictures or catalogues, prints,...
I'm not hung up by that fact, I've got stuck on the fact that the made mostly surgical instruments, at that time I had no proof that D Bastet made razors as well, now I know more with the help of Neil Miller, with much gratitude!
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09-16-2012, 03:13 PM #5
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09-16-2012, 03:21 PM #6
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09-17-2012, 06:45 AM #7
My bad Fikira, my wording was a bit messy. I meant to say that "'s Gravenhage" is the alternative name (still officially anyway, although no-one uses it anymore) for "Den Haag" (The Hague) when I said:
I put it at the end of the entire paragraph, which was indeed quite confusing.
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09-17-2012, 09:25 PM #8