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

Yesterday, I posted that I found two razors in Georgia and brought them home. One of them is really puzzling to me and I'm hoping you fine folks can put a nail in this coffin.

There is a bear stamp with the words "OUR BEST" before it. On the reverse side, OTT Bros & co is stamped on there. As a final touch, the scales have the Boker tree. I googled the bear stamp and came up with T Hessen-Bruch, but the other pieces on the razor don't really line up with everything else. The two ideas I had were that a) it's a knock off, or b) someone put on Boker scales some years ago.


As pointed out in the show and tell thread, there is a square divot out of the back by the pin. It certainly leads one to ask if the scales were replaced. There is a bit of rust and corrosion on the pins and near the base of the pins. If the scales were replaced, it was a good while ago.

One other member had an OTT Bros razor some time ago, but there were no other details mentioned. I am quite puzzled with this. My only other thought was that this set of scales got thrown into the Boker batch of scales on accident. Who knows, maybe the worker assembling the razor wasn't paying attention. It seems kind of farfetched, but farfetched is the best I can come up with at the moment. I want to take it off the scales so I can start working with it, but I don't want to start tinkering with it until the mystery has been solved.

Any thoughts are certainly appreciated.