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To date, the highest number I've seen on a Gilchrist is 74.

I have... Uh. Quite a few of them at this point.

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All the boxes are Gilchrist boxes. All the razors on the bottom are...

Good question!

A quick look through records suggests that he probably wasn't, at least not directly...

But daaaaamn those are some gorgeous mandolins!

Oh, excellent, Mike! The old Sheffields that have anything out there way at the end of the tail are unusual to find, and probably later (1880's ->)

Your Gilchrist looks like it's been worked on....

Awesome, Mike!

Yeah, that's exactly my thinking, Tom. He made the Ramapos, and the imported stuff came after.

I've looked, but never found one. Catalogs like that going back to the 1850's are pretty thin on the ground, and while some do cover razors, I recall they didn't have a super wide selection.

Oops! I missed this post in my posting frenzy!

Yeah, every now and then I see that particular blade pattern, but they're pretty unusual. They're also kind of bizarre in that it's a 7/8 razor with...

Yes. Wm is just another way of abbreviating William.

Despite what I previously thought and posted in another thread about Gilchrist, it's unlikely any of the razors were imported by his father....

No. 44

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Again, a distinctly unusual blade design....

No. 39, a pair.

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No. 14

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Another frameback, and quite close numerically to the...

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That is Wade & Butcher's 'Bow Razor' mark. I have seen,...

And then comes this oddity, which makes me think that the W. Gilchrist razors come after the Ramapo razors.

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The next stage is the Jersey City stamped razors, like this one:

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Or did Gilchrist-branded razors come first?

Ones like this:

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This club has been a long time coming for me. William Gilchrist has been my favorite hobbyhorse for about 4 years now, and I've amassed... A few of his razors.

A detailed history will have to wait...