Thread: 1700s Gronstrand pair in ivory

Originally Posted by Lemur

Never heard of them but the name "Grönstrand" is quite normal here, (Grön - Green, Strand - Beach)

Think I just found him; Grönstrand, Nils, rakknivssmed. (Rakkniv - Straight Razor, Smed - Smith)
He is mentioned in a book; Eskilstuna, en Svensk märkesstad: kloster-, slotts- och industri-stadens öden genom seklerna i historisk belysning, by Knut Hellberg, written in 1919 - 1920 about industries in Eskilstuna.

Digitalen: Eskilstuna en märkesstad del 1 och 2 1919

Here comes the crux, part 1 and 2 of the book is digitalized, not part 3 that he's in!

Well that explains why my searching through the digitized versions turned up nothing, ha.

I am thinking like pixel on this one. Not that I know much but they would have had to grind a lot of detail and the stamp would be missing. The hollow would be a rather course grind in the first place.

Looking at it again, I'm 99.99% certain this has been reground. Stamps go deep, and usually are left intact after regrinding (we're talking a light brush on the surface to get it shiny again, which doesn't take off a lot of metal. Nowadays when we hear 'regrind' we often associate it with changing some shape of the blade). See below:

Wostenholm, complete regrind of blade face, tang, and tail. This one has little spots of crocus polish left, so I know with absolute certainty it was reground; but on first inspection you might not be able to tell. Also, the angles on the tang have been kept very sharp:


Aux, complete regrind all over. Clark and Hall, ground on the blade:


Again, it's hard to see from the photographs, but the surface is quite roughly finished by razor standards even though it looks like a mirror. The maker would have finished them to a higher degree before releasing them.