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Lots of rust and neglect on the blade I hope I can sand away most of it and make it functional and if possible, pretty. Gettin there may indeed take some doing.

BINGO! Thanks!

Can't seem to post pics (post count too low maybe?) but anyway, looks like the correct answer is that my new friend is somewhere between 121 and 108 years old.

It'll take plenty to get this one...

I recently scored a C.W. Hackett Hardware Company razor as a restoration experiment/training tool beater. The scales are kind of a faux bamboo and the razor itself has kind of a fake frameback...