Does anyone recognise this one?
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Does anyone recognise this one?
A stub tail with the look of a car from a 1950 sci-fi comics?!? Amazing!
No info, alas, but it's a real nice find! Is it a wedge? Is there anything stamped on the other side?
Bastet was a Dutch manufacturer of high quality cutlery and surgical supplies since 1684, located in central Amsterdam.
They went out of business only in 1981, at some point changed the name to T.F. Bastet (around the last quarter of the 19th century), having been purveyor to the royal household for different periods of time (at least during the late 17th and late 19th century). I have one too (being Dutch I had to get one of course), it came in a box signed with "T.F. Bastet, The Dutch - English Razor" which led me to believe they might actually had at least some of their razors made in Sheffield. Here is another one, as well as here.
Based on the slighty bulky, unbalanced design and the tail design I'd place yours at the early-to-mid 19th century.
Yep, full wedge and nothing on the other side...
Thank U!Quote:
Originally Posted by Pithor
The big problem is that all the razors I've seen are marked T.F. Bastet and "T.F. Bastet is a firm whom produces surgical tools and knives from 1876 to 1931". Mine is Bastet...
The looks are more like (indeed) 1800-1850...
Strange...
Is it for shaving cats?
I think the cat would , or run like hell, or shave yourself with her nails?Quote:
Originally Posted by Lemur
Here's a similar one. Not exactly the same shape, but not too far away from it. Yours looks like an earlier model.
Regards,
Neil
Thanks, but I really think its another one, all these "Bastet's" are T.F. Bastet, mine is just "Bastet", I have only see it once or twice and couldn't find anything of info about it...Quote:
Originally Posted by Neil Miller
Regards
Love the look of this old guy! Almost like a french point? I am especially curious about the height of the tang and love how it just slowly tapers off from the spine.
What will you do with it?
Oh I imagine that he'll open letters with it, perhaps arts and crafts? :rofl2:Quote:
Originally Posted by jgkeegan
I still hope that your imagination has served you equally well in the past.Quote:
Originally Posted by brooksie967
How about Daniel Bastet? -Quote:
Originally Posted by Fikira
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The references above date from 1824/25. "la Haye" means the Netherlands - Holland. So the same family as T. F. Bastet, presumably. Earlier razors were just marked 'Bastet'.
Regards,
Neil
lol:-Quote:
Originally Posted by Lemur
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Regards,
Neil
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...Quote:
Originally Posted by Neil Miller
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Very very much pleased with your research!
Regards
Mmmm... A goddess shaving HERself with a razor signed with Her name! What an ego, and would she had used it for the whiskers?Quote:
Originally Posted by Neil Miller
:gaah::rofl2:
Regards
Nope - probably a cattaraugaus...!Quote:
Originally Posted by Fikira
Regards,
Neil
I picked this up years ago in a pair of clear horn scales that simply crumbled to the touch. Looks old, but it's about half-hollow. Possibly re-ground. Someday I'll get some appropriate scales, hone this old girl up.....and.... shave my cat?
Yes, I agree!
If it's named "Bastet" it must be for cats.
What scares me though is a razor I've got here named "Lorena"...
John and Lorena Bobbitt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I would love to have a "Bastet" instead!
Hi firka I see that your getting hung up on the fact that they made surgical tools but you have to remember that most of the people the produced razors also produced other forms of cutlery which would include surgical tools. Joseph Rodgers made whole eating sets, Erik anton berg and joseph engstrom made kitchen knives and Weck made surgical tools.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fikira
I know, that is not the problem, the examples, pictures that I've seen of D bastet are from surgical tools, wich gives me no reference for dating my razorQuote:
Originally Posted by Castel33
The information from Niel Miller is very helpfull because now there is a chance that my razor is from D Bastet
I'm hoping for more pictures and evidence!
Regards
Great pictures! And very nice to know there are more of them!Quote:
Originally Posted by stimpy52
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).Quote:
Originally Posted by Neil Miller
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.:p
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Castel33
Sorry for the late answer;Quote:
Originally Posted by brooksie967
The maximum height of the tang is 11/16, of the blade 13/16-7/8, and de blade is 6 3/8 long,
Regards
Interesting!Was ' sGravenhage the old name for Amsterdam?Quote:
Originally Posted by Pithor
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!
Regards
Thanks for the information!Quote:
Originally Posted by kalerolf
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pithor
OK no problem!Quote:
Originally Posted by Pithor
Thanks!
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