Thread: J A Henckles 7 day 4/8 set

The issue with ivory is legal resale.
Keep your papers!
If the documentation is lost you might have a nice set of razors vanish to the ivory police.
In a perfect world you should be able to get the steel back but it does not happen.

My seven day set strategy is a cigar box or a zip-loc bag of seven "birds of a feather razors".

A shaver only needs one set of razors (two or three unless you find a couple more), a collector
needs to think hard and go to school.

My standard evaluation rules for a set of seven like this begins with a 50 year loan
them to me please clause.

Nice.

Originally Posted by Hanlon

Could well be. But I keep going back to the visible grain in the handles from this photo.


If that's celluloid, it's magnitudes of order better than any faux ivory I've ever encountered. Vintage celluloid never really seemed to capture that wide, almost translucent grain I see here.

But really, you're right. Given how unusual these handles would be for ivory, I'd have to see it person to be 100% convinced in either direction.

That visible grain looks a lot like schreger lines found in high quality ivory and I have never seen celluloid scales that could duplicate that look. Some of the scales don't seem to exhibit those schreger lines but they could be cut from a different part of the tusk where you would not see them.

Like wood, it is all in how it is sawn and from where that what grain and how it shows appears.

Bob