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05-29-2013, 02:18 AM #1
Elementary my dear Obie ...... I can tell you it is a beautiful razor. Enjoy it !!
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Obie (05-29-2013)
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05-29-2013, 02:35 AM #2
Martin:
You amaze me, my friend. This is a fascinating background on this razor. Thank you for your detective work. Yes, it is a striking razor. So then, if Gelle Freres was only the distributor, do we know who made the razor? Depose is imprinted on the other side of the tang. I have seen the Depose imprint before. Is this, then, the manufacturer? All intriguing. By the way, the frame back razor is from another world. What an incredible design.
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05-29-2013, 02:50 AM #3
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Thanked: 4249Depose has nothing to do with the manufacturer of the razor, that means that your mark like in this case Gelle Freres has been registered and protected, so thats why the marking Depose is commonly found.
As to the maker of this razor i dont know but some have suggested it was from Nogent France??
Gelle freres advertisement from 1869 in english! well almost.Last edited by Martin103; 05-29-2013 at 02:59 AM.
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Obie (05-29-2013)
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05-29-2013, 03:01 AM #4
I assume, then, since we're not sure about the maker of the razor, we have to settle for the distributor and call the razor Gelle Freres. I suppose it's a similar case with some of the oddball Sheffield razors that were probably produced by the big names. All fascinating stuff. I can't wait for the shave tomorrow.
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05-29-2013, 04:26 AM #5
My dear Sherlock Martin!!!......as you said in another century, "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be truth......"
Well done!!
And Obie, that's a beauty! Even Dr. Watson would have approved!!
Regards,
Howard
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Obie (05-29-2013)
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05-29-2013, 04:21 PM #6
Gentlemen:
This morning the angels held hands and blew me kisses as I shaved with the Gelle Freres New American razor. What an incredible shaver. The razor is a half hollow 11/16 with a barber's notch. The past few months I have shaved mostly with hollow razors — Puma, Schlieper, Schmidt, Schulze, LouPer, Thiers-Issard and others — all emitting the delicious scraping sound. Love them all. This one, since it is half hollow, was on the quiet side, which took a few moments to get used to, but I was already in love with it. I also have several Sheffields, but have not used them during this time. But the shave . . . Glorious. The brush was Saville Row 24 mm silvertip and the soap Martin de Candre and the strop Neil Miller shell cordovan. It's a sweet world, gentlemen, and it was a fine morning in the shave den with the Gelle Freres New American. Thanks to my good friend Martin, now I also know something about the history of this intriguing razor.
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05-29-2013, 04:28 PM #7
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05-29-2013, 02:38 AM #8