Quote Originally Posted by Voidmonster View Post
The scales are definitely not original. The blade is 1850's or so, the scales are 1880-1920 gutta percha/vulcanite/ebonite. Hardened rubber, essentially.

I wish I could tell you more about W. Taylor, but that is perhaps the least researchable name of any razor I've come across. I've never managed to craft a search query that gets me even remotely close, and of course Taylor is an incredibly common name. You might think that the corporate mark "X Q SITE" would help, but it doesn't. I have several, and I've never been able to figure out who Mr. Taylor was. Probably not a Sheffield producer, but a storekeeper somewhere else.

There are, unfortunately, a lot of somewheres that aren't Sheffield.
Could the XQ SITE be an abbreviation for Exquisite? Kind of like IXL for I Excel.