Quote Originally Posted by WW243 View Post
I have to de-program myself from seeing the abused modern razors on Ebay, the ones that would be good to add to your collection.
That's part of the reason they go cheap! Well, now people are starting to catch on, so not so much anymore.

I'm surprised that type of horn, if from cow, has not appeared more often
I can't give a definite answer for this, only speculation until I find and comb through books on the horn trade. Could be a number of reasons. Could be that it was harder to find, trickier to work with, or that uniform color scales were just more in demand. Most of the old razors with black horn scales started life out as horn of various colors and mottling; it was chemically blackened.