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Just giving it some thought. The Russian Revolution was in 1917 IIRC. Followed by the Russian civil war which lasted a few years. Lenin and Stalin probably weren't exporting much of anything I...

This is a question that is of interest to me as well. Not only Russian Shell, but shell in general. I've got a few old strops marked 'shell' other than the Russians I posted photos of. Now these are...

Here is a post by the late Neil Miller, who probably knew more about strops/leather than anyone I've ever talked with ;
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That is my guess. Here are a couple of oldies but goodies I have that are stamped Russia. Notice the flip sides have the cross hatch pattern that I understand is characteristic of 'Russian' strops,...

Nice vintage strop. AFAIK the term Russia, or Russian, refers to the curing method, and to the cross hatched pattern on the back side of the strop. My guess is that strop was made in the USA in spite...