Thread: Whath about the viking or chinese razor

Regarding the thing in the photo above, please read this thread abouthttp://straightrazorpalace.com/auction-talk-ebay-etc/35662-please-dont-moron.

Originally Posted by Utopian

Regarding the thing in the photo above, please read this thread abouthttp://straightrazorpalace.com/auction-talk-ebay-etc/35662-please-dont-moron.

I've actually read that before, I liked one of your other posts where someone asked about his "colonial" razor, and you posted something about it being made somewhere in Guan Zhou and that you also had George Washington's hatchet you'd be willing to sell to someone, althought the handle and head had been replaced.

But as for the RSO I embedded, I usually dismiss all of them, but that one looked a lot different than the others. I was interested in it because it's shape is similar to the one in the OP, which I remembered seeing a few weeks ago.

The frustrating thing is that the fakes are copies of the real things that actually do exist, but in much smaller quantities. Telling them apart is the challenge.

Originally Posted by Utopian

The frustrating thing is that the fakes are copies of the real things that actually do exist, but in much smaller quantities. Telling them apart is the challenge.

Quite Right my friend!

Originally Posted by Amenrab

I may be a little bit late to this thread, but I've just seen this



It looks like the razor you listed in the OP, but considering I saw it on ebay, I'm very dubious about it being anything more than an RSO made a few months ago.


I just made an image search of the picture from the OP and found this blog MINERALARTS: Iron and Thorn | Drawing and metalwork, nature, cats, Sonoran Desert. | Page 22 where the author states that it was [/FONT][/COLOR]

In Todocoleccion an spanish sellers page I found this, called oriental knife to clean horses hoofs



Regards

Originally Posted by Robertoreigosmendez

In Todocoleccion an spanish sellers page I found this, called oriental knife to clean horses hoofs
Regards

When I was a kid, nearly every pocket knife (yeah, kids used to run about with pocket knives, sheath knives, clasp knives, bows and arrows, home-made spears, air-pistols, you name it) had a little spike gizmo on it. If you asked anyone what it was, the universal reply was something like "its for getting stones out of horses hooves" but no-one knew what it was called!

I suspect the smaller spikes of this ilk were for punching and reaming holes in leather, and the longer spikes found on clasp knives were marlin/rope spikes, for knot work, unpicking and so on. But I don't really know....

Regards,
Neil