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I've now shaved with one of the two Magnum Bonum razors. It took about 20 minutes to get it into shape using Nun2Sharp's nice hone progression. I go slow, so if he'd done it himself it probably...

As a general rule, if it's weird and old and you got outbid on it, it was probably me. :D

Also, the eBay vendor replied to me. They didn't receive any information from the person they sold it for, and were unable to turn up anything in putting together the listing.

I'm revising my estimate of the date of these razors back to 1810.

The same newspaper ad I posted above ran for several months in New York, and I found multiple other ads from the same year...

I feel so naked out here without my reference books! :D

Restoring that Smith razor is high on my list of things to do as soon as I get home.

It'll be interesting to see if the seller knows anything, but frankly I doubt it. Tracking things down is one of the things I'm pretty good at, and this set doesn't give me a lot of hope I'll be able...

I'm still out of town, staying with friends, but I've won some eBay auctions and gotten some very neat stuff in the midst of lots of fairly unpleasant work.
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