Pandevant & Roy Super Ornate Razor

Anyone own one of these? I picked it up today for what I'd call a fair price that gives me some room to bring the blade back up to speed. 6/8. Scales are perfect, amazingly. This style of celluloid is usually a disaster. Anyway, here are some pics. It looks a lot like a bartmann to me, so I suppose question 2 is if anyone has an alternatively branded razor with an identical setup.



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i really like the Greek key across the spine, a sign of opulence

Looks like you are gonna have joy trying to keep the gold wash

Yeah, to really get this right it would have to go and be reinstated. This was the result of some soapy water followed by a rub down with some soft cloths. It actually removed a lot of the stuff on the immediate surface. I wish I got a more positive result where the gold wash is on the toe and on the toe area of the spine work.

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Gorgeous razor, certain to be a prized piece. Scales -- maybe dyed horn? Hard to tell without it being in my hands, check the edges for a little tell-tale delamination.

Scales are celluloid.

Looks fantastic! I love those fancy details

Very nice looker. Enjoy

The spine section (not the deco) and point are similar as the ones of my almost surely Solingen made G. Caudano.

Actually, someone solved that mystery for me.
"The "Perle de France" is the high-end Fontenille. Their answer to LeGrelot 'Masque de fer'." It is a rebranded Fontenille.

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Originally Posted by kcb5150

Actually, someone solved that mystery for me.
"The "Perle de France" is the high-end Fontenille. Their answer to LeGrelot 'Masque de fer'." It is a rebranded Fontenille.

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Very similar to my two Freidel Kochs from a 7 day set.

I recall seeing a scorpion 7 day set once that was a bit similar, but not quite. I can only venture a guess that this motif and similar ones were the trend for the ultra premium model any company was offering at the time. It's not in the immediate resto pipeline, but this cleaned up, the gold wash redone to be like new and real MOP scales would be stunning. So would ivory for that matter, but ivory really isn't my bag.