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Oh, I didn’t turn that one up.

Definitely a harsh regrind.

The one that's still listed looks to be original. While the pile-side pivot washer is missing, that is at least the blade pattern that was sold with those scales.

For whatever reason, I've got two...

Me too, for the longest time.

Based on the blade styles, they seem to have been made over a pretty good span of time. Maybe as much as 20 years. I've seen a couple different style blades (that...

Correction:

There was also a New Orleans version!

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I am 98% certain I bid on the one you got from Germany when it went through eBay. SRP member EisenFaust and I were planning on pooling resources -- he needed someone in America to ship it to and I...

Ah, but yours is not the rarest of the Ottoman Egyptian razors. I've seen three like yours, but only ONE that was misspelled!

At this point, I'm not even sure how many tapered razors I have. There are ten of them in my 'tapered blades' drawer, but I know I have at least several others waiting to have scales put on them, and...

Oh, I've bought every one I've seen regardless of condition. I have a few that're unusable.

I have 5 T. Aschers. :D

I don’t know how rare this is, but I’ve never seen another. It technically shouldn’t be that rare considering how long the manufacturer was in business! I’d really expect to have seen more of them......

I’d say it’s definitely ivory.

That's bizarre! Looks like workers from Sheffield and Solingen got together and made a frankenstein baby!

That is a REALLY interesting grind!

I’m consciously trying to fill some of that void, but it feels like trying to flood the Grand Canyon with an eyedropper.

I’ve also got one from the Hassam Brothers and at some point I was going to do a writeup about them. At the moment, I can’t remember what I had to say, but I know I’d done research (I know you’re all...

Excellent! That nicely confirms what I’d found previously, though it does look like your New York razor was reground slightly — that stabilizer doesn’t look original.

Mine also says ‘Independence’...

In the interest of getting more cool, odd stuff to come out of the woodwork... I offer up a bunch more oddities.

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John Elliot was Joseph Elliot’s brother. The duration of their...

I’ve got a few razors by Edward Allison.

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He had a pretty brief, but interesting career. His first directory listing was in 1825, and he seems to have died in the early 1830’s,...

I'm working my butt off to get back to 25 miles a day, 5 days a week. I got real lazy last year.

Excellent! Another Stodart! Those came as pairs: one rhodium, one iridium & osmium (at the time, Wollaston could identify both metals but not separate them, so they always came as a duo).

I figured it was time for a picture of me without a glass of absinthe obscuring half my face. :D

The story of my life in a nutshell. :D

The answer to what my rarest razor is is probably this one:

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Made by James Stodart with a steel alloy he and Michael Faraday developed, involving mixing high quality India steel...

George Savage is an interesting one. Quite a long career, actually. From the 1820’s to the 1880’s. But he went bankrupt like three times, and he moved shop more often than that.