Thread: Unusual Joseph Elliot. Anyone seen one like it?

Originally Posted by Maladroit

I think William IV's cipher would have been GR for Gulielmus Rex, the latinized form of William. He was so named on coinage of the period. Also, don't those scales look like celluloid? If they are cell, and aren't later rescales, then the date of the razor is well after the reign of William IV which ended in 1837.

Absolutely not. WR is William, GR would have been George. That's the recognised convention, in every history book in the UK - and elsewhere, I should imagine, for hundreds of years the 'modern' usage is from early Tudor times (around 1485) - pre-dating even Voidmonster! Period.

As for the scales, the ones in the original post are not original, and the ones in the second pic are horn, so we can't use 'celluloid' as a means of dating, whereas we can definitely use the royal cypher.

Regards,
Neil