Razors from the Victoria and Albert Museum - London

While in London, I was able to visit the Victoria and Albert Museum, which is one of the finest for art and design (and has free admission). They have a number of razors scattered throughout the museum (and some more in storage).

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Small razor, early-mid 18th c.

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Interesting spine work

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Pair of tortoise razors from a set of mixed makers, latter half of 18th c.

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Closeup of the same

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Detailing of a squirrel engraving

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Square shagreen traveling set

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Octagonal shagreen traveling set

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Octagonal shagreen traveling set


More in the next post...

Also in the collection was a traveling set from the mid-1600s, complete with razors, tools, a mounted coticule, etc.

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My favorite museum in London

Thanks for sharing, I love seeing these type of posts / photos

The mounted stone is a really interesting item as are all the others, :tu

Great work ScienceGuy! I've been to the V & A each time I've visited London but I hadn't seen those razors so I'll have to keep it in mind. I don't think I've seen a photo of an actual 17thC razor before: a few probable 18thC ones - usually in Zak's (Voidmonster) collection and certainly never in the hand.

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Originally Posted by Maladroit

Great work ScienceGuy! I've been to the V & A each time I've visited London but I hadn't seen those razors so I'll have to keep it in mind. I don't think I've seen a photo of an actual 17thC razor before: a few probable 18thC ones - usually in Zak's (Voidmonster) collection and certainly never in the hand.

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They didn't have much in the way of razors. The cases / 18th c items were in the silver collections, and the 17th c case was was in the Europe 1400-1700 (or something like that) section amid other artifacts.

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Originally Posted by ScienceGuy

They didn't have much in the way of razors. The cases / 18th c items were in the silver collections, and the 17th c case was was in the Europe 1400-1700 (or something like that) section amid other artifacts.

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Sort of like looking for razors in a shop or a sale.....;)

Or the coticule, that was particularly interesting to me.