Years ago, I bought an old Torrey at an antique flea market for $10 or 15. After inspecting the razor and agreeing on a price, don’t recall the actual price, she produced a red Torrey box and put the razor in it.
When I got home, I was going to clean it and put it on the buffer but saw some writing on the inside of the box where the cover slides over the bottom box.
Written in shaky printing, black fountain pen ink was, "Used by Rosevelt (sp) in Bad-lands (sp) Madora (sp) 1883-4".
During the purchase, no mention of the writing on the box or of its potential provenance.
So, I lightly cleaned the razor with WD40 and 0000 steel wool and stored it back in the box.
Was it Teddy Roosevelt’s razor or one he used? Everything about it fits the timeline, including the shaky writing and spelling.
T. Roosevelt Torrey razor?