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Thank you, Neil! I'll have more to say on this a little later (I'm relatively confident of the Isaac Gottschalk Ascher lineage and absolutely share your doubt as to relevance), but at the moment I'm...

No problem, amigo!

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Interestingly, your Greaves Masonic is quite a bit different from mine.
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It sure does!

I'd guess mugs, but who knows?

I would find this advertisement AFTER I made that post. Ah well.'

From a Montreal trade directory, circa 1870ish.

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Okay, this is all incomplete and probably not accurate, but it's the best I can do.

I also need to mention that I had been barking up entirely the wrong tree on the name -- Specifically, Theo...

Yeah, I've got a lot of stuff to add (though a great deal of it is inconclusive), but I'm having one of those days where I have to track down an intermittent computer problem, and it's wrecking my...

I guess I should've probably updated this thread...

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I got a third Ascher razor.

Trilaterial1, where did you get yours?
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Just an added data-point on T. Ascher.


5144 And Theodore Ascher, of Jewin Street in the city of London, has given the like notice in respect of the invention of "Improvements in the manufacture...

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I am now the proud owner of the most T. Ascher razors collected in one place.

My latest acquisition has doubled the size of my collection, which is now twice as big as any other...