Anybody has info on this razor, Mertens & Heider Solingen Germany - Black Devil razor? All I could find is that thy have been established in 1920s (or so).
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Anybody has info on this razor, Mertens & Heider Solingen Germany - Black Devil razor? All I could find is that thy have been established in 1920s (or so).
Here is an ad from from 1930. This is all I could locate about this company.
Regards - Walt
http://i464.photobucket.com/albums/r...ps0dbd131f.jpg
Hey Walt, yes stumbled upon this pic, and some minor info about establishment, but nothing useful, and completely nothing on Black devil model. I can post some pic later.
..here are the pics
add: this seems to be the successor : http://www.carl-mertens.com/
http://shrani.si/f/1g/Az/SNA9w9A/201...3-mihacrni.jpg
http://shrani.si/f/G/4P/1IfB4nVF/201...3-mihacrni.jpg
http://shrani.si/f/2V/1v/2Fgezvz2/20...3-mihacrni.jpg
http://shrani.si/f/2Y/I2/10d2O7PO/20...3-mihacrni.jpg
http://shrani.si/f/3R/3Q/3lQQZqVV/20...3-mihacrni.jpg
.. how the razor turned up :)
http://straightrazorpalace.com/custo...ml#post1165393
Alex Mertens and Paul Heider. The archiving industry register has them in Solingen in 1925 (although they could have been there earlier) and they show up in a german address book as follows:
Attachment 132302
Regards,
Neil
@Neil: thanks, if I understand correctly they are still in business, What I was wondering also was when the razor might be made.. any thoughts on that?
