Thread: London souvenir: Southern & Richardson

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

+1. Those are horn with the collarless pins and all. Like Wullie said, you can see grain in the second pic. That is a nice one, I thought it was a frameback with a separate blade at first but it is one piece. Neat grind.

Thanks, I thought they were a little too shiny to be horn because most of the old horn scaled razors I have show a much deeper grain. Plus I don't remember any vintage horn being beveled like these ones are. Not that I'm complaining, I much prefer natural to synthetic materials.

I figure most of the time the old horn you see with the raised grain is simply because it hasn't been taken care of as well as yours appears to have been.

Horn will get smooth as glass when sanded and polished..

Once again, NICE old razor.

I would think about fixing or having that pin crack fixed before it blows out on you. I've used thin CA to fix similar issues. Apply sparingly.