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    I acquired this after selling something. It had some string tied around the end & at first it looked like they didn't cut grooves in the scales but unfortunately they did. It's still a nice old piece. I'd put it somewhere between the 1810's & 1820's but will do more research when I can.
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    very nice !! i watched the one on the bay slip away the other day and have been waiting to see it posted and thought it was gonna be this one ..lol.. but in fact it is another fine example of a early Greaves !! CONGRATS !!

    i think 1817 it became Greaves & Sons so i will give you the few years so you can rule out the 1820 ..lol

    i was watching this one but was short on funds !! and when i saw your post i had figured you snagged it ..lol
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    Quote Originally Posted by gooser View Post
    very nice !! i watched the one on the bay slip away the other day and have been waiting to see it posted and thought it was gonna be this one ..lol.. but in fact it is another fine example of a early Greaves !! CONGRATS !!

    i think 1817 it became Greaves & Sons so i will give you the few years so you can rule out the 1820 ..lol
    It was on the bay but I took the string off & sadly it had the grooves in the scales but it's intact so I have no idea why it had the string on it unless someone was fishing with it too!

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    Quote Originally Posted by gooser View Post
    very nice !! i watched the one on the bay slip away the other day and have been waiting to see it posted and thought it was gonna be this one ..lol.. but in fact it is another fine example of a early Greaves !! CONGRATS !!

    i think 1817 it became Greaves & Sons so i will give you the few years so you can rule out the 1820 ..lol

    i was watching this one but was short on funds !! and when i saw your post i had figured you snagged it ..lol
    I saw that one, it climbed well over $!00..................
    I think that one was a few years older since it said Acier Fondu on it. This puts me to about 35-40 Greaves razors but I love the scales on this one.
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    i think closer to almost $200 if it wasnt after christmas i would have dumped what i had left but i didnt have any left ..lol.. the guy had 3 razors , i thought for sure i had 1 of them so i bid what i could on another and got beat on it 2 ..lol

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    It's not fully clear when they started using the "& sons" stamp, but it was almost certainly well before 1817. They posted 'Greaves & Sons' when they moved to Cheney Square in 1801. That's buried in my gigantic Greaves writeup, but I might wanna add it to the cheatsheet of important details at the end.

    There's a possibility that the blade is later than the scales, but it's equally likely that the razor is actually that old.

    You can fix the cut scales with some ground up horn, superglue and hair dye. It's pretty easy to do!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Voidmonster View Post
    It's not fully clear when they started using the "& sons" stamp, but it was almost certainly well before 1817. They posted 'Greaves & Sons' when they moved to Cheney Square in 1801. That's buried in my gigantic Greaves writeup, but I might wanna add it to the cheatsheet of important details at the end.

    There's a possibility that the blade is later than the scales, but it's equally likely that the razor is actually that old.

    You can fix the cut scales with some ground up horn, superglue and hair dye. It's pretty easy to do!
    Thanks Zak
    I have fixed some scales in a very similar issue. Get the grindings all together, mix with glue & apply.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Voidmonster View Post
    It's not fully clear when they started using the "& sons" stamp, but it was almost certainly well before 1817. They posted 'Greaves & Sons' when they moved to Cheney Square in 1801. That's buried in my gigantic Greaves writeup, but I might wanna add it to the cheatsheet of important details at the end.

    There's a possibility that the blade is later than the scales, but it's equally likely that the razor is actually that old.

    You can fix the cut scales with some ground up horn, superglue and hair dye. It's pretty easy to do!
    never saw this write up very good read , thanks !!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Voidmonster View Post
    It's not fully clear when they started using the "& sons" stamp, but it was almost certainly well before 1817. They posted 'Greaves & Sons' when they moved to Cheney Square in 1801. That's buried in my gigantic Greaves writeup, but I might wanna add it to the cheatsheet of important details at the end.

    There's a possibility that the blade is later than the scales, but it's equally likely that the razor is actually that old.

    You can fix the cut scales with some ground up horn, superglue and hair dye. It's pretty easy to do!
    Here is an old W. Greaves & Sons blade I just dug out of the pile that I had forgotten about.
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