I wonder if anyone has info on this beast? 9/8 with horn scales. I like the grinding wheel/pulley setup on the back tang!
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I wonder if anyone has info on this beast? 9/8 with horn scales. I like the grinding wheel/pulley setup on the back tang!
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Well, I suppose starting a thread stimulates! I have found that the tang stamp indicates it was imported into France and is German made.
I reckon that Jourdain was a French dealer. The grinding wheel on the back tang should be a clue to the maker?
Pretty sweet Tom I may not know anything about the maker, but I do know what I like.
And Me Likey!!!! :tu
Darl (Tarkus)
That is one sweet piece of steel, very nice.
Eric
Is that the one on eBay?
No. I don't see a Jourdain there?
That is one beautiful razor the deep grind on the blade is stunning. Camille Page, mentioned a few Jourdain Coutellerie in his books "La coutellerie depuis l'origine jusqu'ā nos jours", a reference cutlery encyclopedia.
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I tried to search for the trademark with the grinding wheel but didnt find anything worth mentoning. On a hunch, looking at your pics once again,
the number 41 1/4 and found 2 examples of Solingen razors with a big blade wich is somewhat unusual for older German razors from the same maker. http://straightrazorpalace.com/show-...41-1-4-ak.html
http://straightrazorpalace.com/razor...8-monster.html
Its a long shot but possible!
Excellent detective work, Martin! (as usual!). The razor itself seems a dead ringer for the Knyn in the first link you provided. The sucker is pretty big, so I wondered if it was not ground on a 41 1/4 wheel! :D.
Well, if nothing comes up, I shall call it a Solingen Knyn, made for Jourdain in France! An old one, for shure!
Thank You, Sir! :chapeau
Yeah that one on Ebay was listed from a vendor who lives less than five miles from where I live. I tried to go look at it in person, but the guy refused. :td Anyhow, congrats on your version of it. I surely wish I could have bought the one I saw.
I wouldn't call it a Solingen Knyn just yet, Tom...
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Abraham Knyns makers mark was just a conjoined 'A' and 'K'
The number is a red-herring: it's just a pattern/model number.
What irks me is that I have seen that belt driven pulley/grinding wheel mark before...but I can't recall where!
Regards,
Neil
It seems as if I have as well, Neil! It will show up somewhere. I figured that on the number, but 41. 1/2 cannot be very common? As I looked at the AK on the razor in Martin's second link, the "A" on it seems the same as the stanchions on the grinding wheel shaft on mine. Well, Perhaps not!~ Looking too hard, I suppose!
Thanks for chiming in! With you fellows, I have the best eyes looking!
Somebody will nail it!
Fine Regards,
Tom
I know what you mean about the stanchions, Tom - I keep thinking they could be an 'A. A.' but can only find one cutler with those initials and I can't find a makers mark for him.
Bonitomio's razor, the AK41, has the conjoined initials too:
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Probably another red-herring anyway! Maybe we'll have to call in Dan 'DaVinci' Brown to crack the code... :)
Regards,
Neil
HA! I was just going to try the A.A. as you replied! As to Dan 'DaVinci", I wonder if Alex has an answer?
So, it is Knyns instead of Knyn? Neat to learn of old makers in any case!
No Tom, it is Knyn - I should have used an apostrophe above.
Abraham Knyn, Solingen-Gräfrath in the 1922 Solingen directory. Abraham often shortened to Abr.
Business: Stahlwarenfabrik.
Zeppelinstrasse 103, Grafrath in 1931.
The family history cocerning blade making goes back to 1683. The family built several wooden 'schliefkotten' - water powered grinding mills - along the Wupper river to grind the blades for the family business.
Solingen state archives for 1846 - 88 record a concession granted to brothers C W and C J Knyn, and to Wilhelm Knyn, 1899 - 1919.
Regards,
Neil
Here some info about Abraham Knyn:
http://straightrazorpalace.com/razor...tml#post904809
And some info on German:
Solinger Schleifkotten an der Wupper - Zweiter Kotten :: Einleitung
Ahnenforschung bildet! • Thema - Adressbuch Gräfrath bei Solingen 1901
Hmm the link that mannah post here dont open in my iphone, now i must wait
until I get home. Bummer
Nice big razor by the way
Big, but not that big...
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...now that's BIG!
Regards,
Neil
Hey Neil!
Does a bowl of soup come with every beheading from that monster.
I'd prefer a different last meal please.
Darl (Tarkus)
No Darl - that's to lather-up with. Condensed tomato soup. Hides the blood.
Regards,
Neil
Ohhhhhhhhh
See thats why you have that Mentor status.
:hmmm:
mental stasis?
Thats the "vendor" part, Darl. :D
Yeah right Neil. The wit you possess is a hoot. I feel like Frado in the Godfather trying to keep up with you my friend.
"I'm Smarrtttt"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYabrQrXt4A
Dear God - thank you, Marlon didn't want me to shave him. That would have been the opposite of smart. If I nicked him and he complained, I would have no option but to slit hi throat and make Sweeney pies out of him.
However, I am not a lucky guy. Marlon stuffed his cheeks so much that many pies would be returned. Brando-cotton pie. Lovely crust. A filling that keeps on giving. Disaster. FBI. The only reason I kept the sales going is i I thought that the pies could have have been something, they coulda have class, they coulda been contenders.
Not that I'm saying that's what happened, but the witness protection program I'm in forbids me to elaborate.
BTW, I told the feds I was a mentor. They were quite impressed. Instead of shooting me on the spot,they just said raise your hands son.
As soon as I make probation I'll tell you the rest.
Darl won't like it though. He loved those pies.
Am I sorry? Hell no. Everyone loves a good pie.
Like I said a HOOT You are something else good sir.
Darl
I cant stop laughing at this Neil
Yeah, Darl eats pie with a spoon! Neil, a good thing you did not tellum you were a VENDOR! You would be under the jail by now! :p
Hey Tom I told you, how can you keep up with the man
Yes.The same sad tale was told to me from a poor soul incarcerated in the Harris County jail a few decades ago. A gauntlet of HUGE black dudes lined the corridor where you must go as they called your name! Took a whole pack O' fags to get to the end! That's what HE said, any way! I, myself, would abhor such things :angel:
Jail or gaol is a metaphore for life, Tom, so while you are being spoon-fed ambrosia and listening to angels strumming on their harps, I will be trying to stop my trousers catching fire.
Not all bad though - at least I will get the satisfaction of seeing my ma in law doing handstands under an erupting volcano.
This thread started interesting...
And then it turned magnificent!
Also, Neil, why did you steal Warhol's IXL?
Abr knyn... Good razors i have one that looks like the one on the first post. without the particular Jourdain name but whit the stamp Manah shows
I couldn't resist it - strange, the feeling of elation only lasted 15 minutes...
Regards,
Neil