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Ask Zak about that. I'm familiar with the late 1700s and beyond. I shave with a couple from that early date sometimes. I've never seen razors from the 1600s in books or on the web that I am aware of....

From what little I know I would say a "modern" straight razor began in the early 1800s as the monkey tails were elongated from the stub tails of the late 1700s, early 1800s. The scales began to have...