Thread: Help to identify my razor (I think swedish)

Originally Posted by Fikira

Is (b) from Wostenholme or Johnson? The dart has lead to discussion, also in this forum

Wostenholm.

Some of Wostenholm's marks as of 1918:




The numbering is the file allocation of the marks, not the year.

Regards,
Neil

Originally Posted by Neil Miller

Wostenholm.

Some of Wostenholm's marks as of 1918:




The numbering is the file allocation of the marks, not the year.

Regards,
Neil

NICE, very nice! Thanks a lot! Is this info, and from other manufacturers, accessible somewhere?

Regards

Eileen Woodhead has a good (but incomplete) pdf on the net (google her name) as do many of the Sheffield History forums (join to view and then search like mad). I have a folder on my desktop that I snip anything interesting and copy it into along with text files of explanations - it goes back years and I suppose that it looks like a jumbled lot of words and images, but it has helped a lot. The only problem is that you can never be sure of just how much - if any - research has gone into stuff published on the net - some of it is downright contradictory1

Spending a lot of time browsing old bookstores helps enormously - look for old trades catalogues and remember that a lot of the makers made and sold their own steel, so catalogues from the steel trade help a lot. Buying books unseen over the net is a bit of a gamble, but I have amassed a good library this way - anything to do with the history of steel, steel-makers, developments in steel alloys etc is fair game. Basically you need time - I don't sleep much, so that helps!

Regards,
Neil

oh, I most say that all these answer were over my expectancy, just wow! you all have restord my faith in the people of forum of internet. Thank you!
So, not swedish but english..

and ScienceGuy,
I don't know about it have been ground... but it might, It surely is some missing, (well.. It was used for a whole life so not so strange..)

Neil, Is it possible that it might become a wiki of that folder in a near future? I really think that you would have interesting stuff in it... and I'm sure that alot more also would appreciate it..

Originally Posted by Neil Miller

Eileen Woodhead has a good (but incomplete) pdf on the net (google her name) as do many of the Sheffield History forums (join to view and then search like mad). I have a folder on my desktop that I snip anything interesting and copy it into along with text files of explanations - it goes back years and I suppose that it looks like a jumbled lot of words and images, but it has helped a lot. The only problem is that you can never be sure of just how much - if any - research has gone into stuff published on the net - some of it is downright contradictory1

Spending a lot of time browsing old bookstores helps enormously - look for old trades catalogues and remember that a lot of the makers made and sold their own steel, so catalogues from the steel trade help a lot. Buying books unseen over the net is a bit of a gamble, but I have amassed a good library this way - anything to do with the history of steel, steel-makers, developments in steel alloys etc is fair game. Basically you need time - I don't sleep much, so that helps!

Regards,
Neil

I'm honestly really very greatfull for such an answer! Thank U very,very much! Isn't it indeed a great idea to have something in wiki with much info about for example Sheffield history, Solingen history,...? (like the forums with examples of Sheffield directory advertisements, dates,catalogues...)

Regards

Originally Posted by Neil Miller

Eileen Woodhead has a good (but incomplete) pdf on the net (google her name) as do many of the Sheffield History forums (join to view and then search like mad). I have a folder on my desktop that I snip anything interesting and copy it into along with text files of explanations - it goes back years and I suppose that it looks like a jumbled lot of words and images, but it has helped a lot. The only problem is that you can never be sure of just how much - if any - research has gone into stuff published on the net - some of it is downright contradictory1

Spending a lot of time browsing old bookstores helps enormously - look for old trades catalogues and remember that a lot of the makers made and sold their own steel, so catalogues from the steel trade help a lot. Buying books unseen over the net is a bit of a gamble, but I have amassed a good library this way - anything to do with the history of steel, steel-makers, developments in steel alloys etc is fair game. Basically you need time - I don't sleep much, so that helps!

Regards,
Neil

Be careful that you get enough sleep by the way!

Greetings