Quote Originally Posted by earcutter View Post
Dude, that is crazy cool! Man, they must have seriously liked that man to get him such a wonderful gift - though I’m sure it was but a small token. Gift giving in those communities is very commonplace. Especially in the day.

Either way, you need to do even more homework - find further connections. Take the story deeper. And then report back of course.

And yeah, after you started selling your prized stuff, I think we all expected to hear about your new DE collection. This is a very cool twist!
These weren’t (as far as I know) razors for Wagner, but to be sold by him. No doubt intended for folks with a pile of scratch. This represents a tier of fancy razor I haven’t seen much of. Not quite ‘bespoke for royalty’ (those solid silver, gold-gilt scales and gold plated blades) or even ‘working tool of the landed gentry’(much fancier blade patterns), but definitely above ‘top shelf in the stationer’s shop’ (cased set in tortoise or ivory scales).