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Thanks very much. So my razor could have been made very early or much later.

I bought the Savigny and a matched pair of French shell scaled razors from an antique dealer. I got the Gilbert from ebay.

I posted a reply before looking at this post. You are on top of it man. Great detective work. Guess he was not a captain. It's a great shaver by the way.

I am probably crazy, but the Hiram Gilbert seems to have laminated steel in the frameback and I thought maybe a Captain Gilbert had a razor made for himself in Japan. I wish Manah or Neil Miller or...

The shell scaled razors are tiny. They are 3/8 and 1/2" and very short. If you look at the group photo you can get some perspective. The Hiram Gilbert razor is 5/8" and the CAST one varies from heel...

So sorry for the bad photography. I have to learn to do it properly.

I replied to a post the other day that I had a Hiram Gilbert razor. I had difficulty finding it but while looking I found some others you might like to look at. I don't know too much about any of...