F. Herder's Double Hollow Ground D.B.G.M.

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Picked up this beauty of a 6/8 beard killer at an antique shop in Winnipeg. The blade reads "F. Herder's Double Hollow Ground D.B.G.M., on the tang it reads 172 Friedr Herder Abr. Soh, Solingen Germany and has the Spade trademark logo. Reverse tang has a pitchfork like trademark as well as the spade and an F. Herder wrapped around the mark.

I read up on the wiki here and found nothing to match the trademark of the "Double Hollow Ground". There are lots of reference pictures of a 'Real German Hollow Ground' but nothing, and NO images to compare to this one. I'm sure there have to be others out there....



The scales are of an unknown material, i'm thinking plastic. To the naked eye they look like they should be black but under the flash they turned this strange olive drab colour. There are some unusual water type marks on the blade which surprised me a little since it wasn't sharp at all. There was NO bevel on it when I got her so I put it through the paces on my Chosera 1k, the welsh slate trio and then my Ozuku with 4 different naguras. Only did a one pass WTG shave but WOW. The pins are extremely tight and the blade centers perfectly I can tell this will be a favourite!

Any ideas on dates of manufacture? Looks like the company was open until the 1990's. She's a HECK of a blade!

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