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I found a place that does super-fancy CNC with an accuracy of 50 microns. I assume the process involves wheelbarrows of cash.

What I'm considering now is just using Shapeways to make a positive...

Yes! I think WOLFERMAN is it! Doesn't turn up a single hit from the Sheffield Indexers --not baptisms, burials, census or work -- but considering the trademarks used in the time period, that doesn't...

I honestly don't know enough about early Solingen cutlery to even speculate... However, Sheffield between 1770 or so and about 1810 was producing a lot of trademarks that seem odd now. Stuff like...

I am really, really seriously considering (if I can do it non-destructively) making a casting off the scales so they can be replicated.

Yep. That's a John Shepherd razor. By the mid 1810's his son George was producing razors stamped 'SHEPHERD'. The WOLF trademark got bought and sold a couple of times, ultimately ending up with Joseph...

Definitely horn... And the pictures don't do justice to how perfect they are (other than that small bite near the pivot on the pile side).

I'll just use a pin vise and bore it out by hand. Though I expect I'll have to replace the collars.

Or, apparently, carving swans... The swan on it looks like a dodo-swan-flamingo hybrid!

I was looking at the stamp some more and realized that the distortion was pretty uniform. So I took a better picture (of the cleaned stamp) and corrected for the distortion.
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