Thread: Need some serious help on figuring this guy out.

Originally Posted by Martin103

Im not sure whether its common or not, but it would be pretty neat to find a set of scales like these, i know that Tom aka Sharptonn would love these!

Yes! Those are nice! AND hard to come by!

Do you know any more about this handle? I just found the same one and was wanting info about it. It is very pretty.

Lots of info here on T. Hessenbruch, such as this: http://straightrazorpalace.com/razor...-bruch-co.html

Excellent razors, quite unlike anything else, IMO. Looks like you will need a blade for those scales?

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Lots of info here on T. Hessenbruch, such as this: http://straightrazorpalace.com/razor...-bruch-co.html Excellent razors, quite unlike anything else, IMO. Looks like you will need a blade for those scales?

Do you know what the scales are made of? It would have been my husband's great grandfather's razor. We won't replace the blade, but will keep it as a keepsake. The blade is incredibly sharp still. It was in a lockbox in our cellar. We bought the place after his great grandma passed away 8 years ago. She was 99 years and 8 months old when she died.

They are cast of aluminum. Sounds cheap these days, but back when they were made, Aluminum was a new alloy and quite expensive and desirable.

Aluminum was extremely expensive in the times of Napoleon (aluminum utensils were more valuable than silver and gold ones), but by the end of the 19th century there was better technology to produce it and it became pretty cheap. The airplane industry made it even cheaper because the governments started subsidizing the production.
By the time these scales were cast it was a run of the mill material - certainly more expensive than the plastics, but far cheaper than sterling silver.