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WOW Tom! What are the odds on that! I think that must have belonged to one of my forebears, 'blind' Neil Miller, the three-fingered honer. He was well-known for his hand gestures, two of them...

You got that upside down Tom - its b-b-b-b-b-Barry's razor.

Funny you should mention that - I have it on the utmost good authority that this was originally an old honers sign, telling him that the razor had been honed. It started off as just a little groove,...

It is quite obviously an early prototype of the Trebl Duck HornEdge, no 19 to be precise. Someone swapped the scales out, probably the english inventor George Bresdickholme (the 'e' was dropped to...

Outstanding - a sheer joy to read!

Jimmy - do you still have your JD hankie? We could have taken that to the Antiques Roadshow with us, too! :rofl2:

I bet there were different systems Tom - names or initials seem very likely.

I remember years ago I got half a dozen razors from a guy in Germany - he had very neatly inscribed his initials and a...

My dear Ace, the eloquence of you verbocity is only exceeded by the capacity of your loquacity! No apology necessary!

Regards,
Neil

No, no Jimmy, it went this way: fast forward 20 years....

...enter a decrepit Neil assisting Jimmy in the door with his zimmer frame. Jimmy gets the razor out at the table and the expert takes it...

I think we are all clear that they aren't conventional fractions, Ace! That was just a convenient way to describe them.

Barbers razors sounds reasonable enough - very reasonable, actually - but...

Interesting subject, Tom.

I have had many razors marked like this, too - I thought about it a bit, then when I couldn't come up with a logical explanation I forgot about it and just sanded them...