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I don't think that the tang has been reground so deep and was much wider once. That means the razor clearly has a shoulder which would rate it past 1800. Also the "rolling" form of the spine from...

A really nice couple of P....’s

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P* - John Fox, freedom date 1735 – RIP 1791.

P „Hearth“ Ford – Jonathan Pitchford, registered at the cutlers company in Hallamshire 1760. Mark was let...

Well that is of course a possibility. But the production factory the Scharff company had in Remscheid was quite large. And as said, they produced every kind of iron tools and razor blankets at that...

The tortoise is original no doubt about that. It looks so shiny just from the polishing, so that you can think of modern faux tortoise. But this is how the razor looked like when I got it:

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No scales are original as far as I can see. I just polished them up....
Regards Peter

A rare german 1700’s

German razors from the 18th century are not very common and very hard to find.
One explanation for this is that razor making wasn’t a typical cutlery work at that time in...

From what I think I can identify on the letters ...ENE..... and ...AL?....
could be "SENE-GALL" written in two lines as shown in Sketchley directory from 1774. Maker David Cadman, Blackfields.
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Thanks Mike for the idea! Since the razor would not be used very frequently for shaving and is more a collection item, I think I will leave it as it is. Just fix the scales again with a cord like it...

An old France.....

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Tang has been reground to form a shoulder. But clearly a dip-at-toe 18th century razor -
although not a Brittain, Wilkinson and Brownell and no Thomas France !?
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Hi lohar, thanks for your feedback. I think the blade had a usual width at the beginning, the perspective irritates a little.

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The scales are of course not origin - at least not in this...

So this is kind of a tricky one.
Dip at toe, very old scales, very widely used in the past few hundred years.....

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Symbol is a "flaming sword" with the initials H O.

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