Thread: Revolutionary War blade?? Hurumph.

Originally Posted by scott64a

I might also add that it looks like a homemade farm tool.

I have seen pictures of such implements being used to shave the heads of monks in Asia. Can't locate the pic at the moment. Those things are smaller than they appear in the pictures.

Well, I habe one of them, I buyed it by a low price only by the noise they make into the razors collectors, personally I think like you Wullie, my razor has an mark in an oriental ideogram, I think is indian or chinesse, into the oriental merchant the straigth razor, english victorian razor arrived with the colony, and this torture instruments provably were forgotten, maibe into the mountains....but I think this razors could be dated around 1850-1900 and earlier; the ones I dont know is in wath date the chinesse comunity arrived to USA and provably carring this razor, sure chipest than the other because save with mines is like do it with an axle or scissor; for this and only for it I can not dersaproved people that put this razors into the independence time, but my knowledge about USA history is like Galician history knoledge american people have but sure is an oriental razor

Here it is my razor, the anagram I think is RI in canton dialect

Perhaps left over from the Chinese migration when the railroads were built?

Interesting picture there. I'm not 100% convinced that is a Chinese character there. While I only have 5 or 6 years studying the language, characters haven't been that simple in a really long time - I'm talking BC era. From my (extremely) limited knowledge of Japanese, I would say that it LOOKS much more like a Japanese character than a Chinese one.

Just my $0.02, but if someone does have more information I, too, would be thrilled in learning about this... I really love learning about the ancient Chinese language.

As an interesting aside, the Spanish governor of Mexico City passed a law in the early 1500's to limit the number of razors that Chinese barbers could own in an attempt to drive business back to the Spanish barbers.

The Chinese barbers were popular for a reason, though, and the law had little effect.