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Interesting. It never occurred to me that horn might naturally take on that tortoise appearance. I won and just received the Joseph Smith and sons in my first post. That is why all of my questions....

found another. A William Greaves and Sons.
About half way down in a pair.

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I just found where celluloid was invented in the 1860s by John Hyatt. So that makes perfect sense. Thanks guys!

Thanks for the well informed answer. It seems as though both of these have imitation tortoise scales. As far as I understand, these two companies were producing sometime around the early to mid...

Any idea why these two would have similar scales? (notice the metal bowtie type inlay)

Vintage Frederick Reynolds Sheffield Straight Razor - eBay (item 190369523813 end time Feb-06-10 22:34:00...