Thread: American Knife Co. Plymouth Hollow, Conn.

Perhaps they are a case of "Assembled in usa from imported materials"

One of my earliest razor purchases, and still one of my favorites.

And with it's brother.



The MOP tang Clauss came in a big lot of razors. The scales were originally vulcanized rubber, but they were in bad shape. I had an ivory-scaled Joseph Rodgers with a trashed blade. Something better was born from the two.



I haven't done anything to clean this one up yet. Now that I post closeups I notice that like the Parker RSO, it has a polished tang and a glazed face. Interesting! It certainly shaves nicely! (I still don't know about the Parker, I need to get a lower grit DMT in order to put a usable bevel on it).

From my To-Do pile:



Left to right: Morgan 'Curve Cut', made in Kansas! Finger Lakes Razor & Cutlery, Geneva, NY and finally Camillus Cutlery, Camillus NY.



Sadly, I don't think I can work that chip out without going into the stabilizer.



For 7 years I lived within a mile of their factory. My wife and I used to go for walks along the Eerie Canal starting where their docks had been at the turn of the century. Of course at the time I wouldn't have even imagined I'd have an interest in razors...

I know they ended up bought out by our good friend Adolph Kastor and, of course, had ties to the Case family.

And one more of that Maher & Grosch, because the forum said I had one too many images...

And a bit of fun trivia about Clauss. The Clauss Shearworks that's in operation now actually has very little to do with the original Clauss Shearworks in Fremont. Their factory shut down in the 40's and at some point they were bought out by Alcoa and the brand was resurrected for making scissors. I contacted them in hopes they had catalogs that'd help me figure out when my razors were made. No go. They have no documents dating that far back.

Also, apparently, they were trying to get in on that whole HIGHLANDER thing because at some point in the recent past the headless corpse of a young man was found at the site of one of their abandoned factories. The head could not be found.
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Nice Pile of Americans, Zak!

Very nice collection indeed, the Clauss twins are superb!

Fantastic razors!

A newspaper advertisement from 1923.

Originally Posted by Martin103

A newspaper advertisement from 1923.

If only they were still offering that tour of the workshop... If only someone had filmed it!

This one says it's American, but I'm betting it ain't