Duane,

I have a very similar Greaves which, incidentally, I picked up at an auction in Picture Rocks, PA about five years ago. My razor was made somewhere between 1780 and 1816 which puts it right at 200-years-old. I honed it and have used it many times. It certainly doesn't detract from the razor's value and it gives me great satisfaction to hold an object in my hands that is two centuries old and still performing the task for which it was designed. I like to let my mind wander back over the years and imagine the circumstances experienced by its original owner and I hope it would make him happy to know that his razor is still mowing down stubble.

Regards - Walt