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Thread: Ponsbach 6 days set with replaceable blades

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    Default Ponsbach 6 days set with replaceable blades

    I bought this set local a while back. Been watching it for a little over a year and tried to buy once before but I think it was too expensive. At the end I ended up getting it for way below half price. 3 of the blades are chipped, one is used very well.. Box says C.V. Schöller. I know nothing about the maker. Anyone?


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    Oh man I like those sets, been wanting one for a long time.
    Saw a set with tortoise, but didn't have the money to spend.
    I'll look it up to see if I can come up with info later, perhaps one of our esteemed historians will give us some info on that set.
    Nice find!
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    I think that’s PONSBACH, as in Carl Friedrich Ponsbach, a very early Swedish manufacturer in Stockholm who went to Sheffield in the late 1700’s to learn the cutlery trade.

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    There’s a little bit about him on this page for one of his apprentices.

    I’d place the date for that at 1810-1820. The blades look to have been reground, but that’s a wonderful find. To date, the Ponsbach razor I have is the only one I’d ever seen!
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    I'd never imagine it to be swedish. Zak it's amazing that you can dig up history on almost everything.

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    I'm still wondering how Zak does it.
    Sometimes I imagine that he has secret connections with the underground historical societies..
    Sometimes I imagine an Indiana Jones character clutching a rare straight razor catalog and yelling..
    "This belongs in a museum!!!"
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    I'm in with the Indiana Jones character, sounds right
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    Looks like the blades may have been reground more hollow sometime back when.
    Neat set!
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    Quote Originally Posted by DNM View Post
    I'd never imagine it to be swedish. Zak it's amazing that you can dig up history on almost everything.
    In this particular case, it was pure, blind luck that I'd come across a Ponsbach razor before. (And bought it)

    Sadly, my ability to turn up information drops off sharply as soon as I can't read about it in English. I need to learn French and Spanish and Swedish and Russian and German and some other ones. Also not just the modern versions, but also the archaic ones.

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    Sweet set too
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    Thank you Glen
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