I just paid for these beauties. I can hardly wait for them to arrive!
Makers mark: Clark Exeter Exchange (dates them late 1700's-1829 when the building was demolished)
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I just paid for these beauties. I can hardly wait for them to arrive!
Makers mark: Clark Exeter Exchange (dates them late 1700's-1829 when the building was demolished)
http://i.ebayimg.com/t/RASOIR-COUPE-...SmRjN/$_12.JPG
I'm assuming this is the pair from French ebay? They will be more toward the later date based on blade shape. A nice pair, too bad the original scales are not on number one. Glad someone here picked them up.
Nice going ! Someday I am going to target some of these older razors.
Be prepared to pay. I bid on a fewcthe last week and wad outbid every time.
Love the scales on the top one... Maybe that will be my next rescale design once my hand heals up
I just finished going over one of your collections and the razors above seem to be made at the end of a style transition as most of the stubtails I saw had the straight scales like the top razor and the blades that were narrow and had a simple taper, some with smiles. The blade shape of both of the above razors look kind of modern (19th century). I guess I'm saying that I like these razors but they look like hybrids. Was this because as you said they were fabricated at the end of a period where styles were in flux?
The history available around this is through Clark and Exeter Change. Mr. Clark established an animal collection in the building and then sold his interests in 1793 and the building was razed in 1829
Exeter Exchange - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia