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That's absolutely the Gilbert Brothers talked about in the article, and the article is 100% wrong on when the razor was made.

As near as I can tell, these Celebrated Old Army Razors were...

Okay, I've debunked my own theory.

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That ad ran in the Public Ledger of...

It only occurred to me today that I just don't really think about the previous owners of my razors, but then I don't have any chance of knowing anything about most of them. The one razor I know a...

A minor update on these.

I think I got the date wrong on them.

With a bit of tender loving acid and some scouring 2k grit I managed to make the ruined etch more legible. It is emphatically...

I've now honed up both of these and I have some observations.

The larger of the two (I'll call it Woodstown, after the etch on the back), took an edge easier. It had less patina on it, so, quite...

Awesome!

Wait. You found more of them? Where at!? I WON'T BID, HONEST!


Seriously though, I've now shaved with the 7/8. It was a pretty good shave, but I think I can get a better edge on it....

After doing a light cleaning pass on the second one, I suspect they had a patina coming from the factory. It looked like much of the blade on it had been blued to make it look older. At least I hope...

Awesome! And wow, the etch on that one. Gorgeous! What all is on the coffin for that?

And I don't suppose either of those have names engraved on them?

I got the second Celebrated Old Army Razor today.

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This one is a full 7/8 at its widest. It has more hone wear. It's always interesting to see how handmade things can be the same...

Two is my limit, all the rest are yours!

<hangs his head>

I'm a bad, bad man.

Were you watching both of them too? I never would've imagined coming across two auctions like that could be so annoying to me, but it utterly broke my tidy little bidding strategy. I woulda rather...

The one with the pipe above is described by Robert Doyle as Revolutionary War period, and I'm pretty sure that's the style of razor that these two W&Bs I got were designed to mimic.

I am relatively confident it was designed to evoke razors from this era:

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The 'Old Army 1776' bit is the real give away here. I dug around through catalogs of exhibitions at the 1876...

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This thing caused me some serious annoyance.

There were two of them up on eBay. One in better shape, the other with a lower starting bid.

I really wanted the razor. Like, wanted a LOT....