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    Mine is a brass frameback and other is square point.

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    Quote Originally Posted by outback View Post
    Like this one, Sonny.?!

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    Oh look, a Show-off in the Show and Tell forum.

    Very cool razor!
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    It's an earlier version of the Torrey Swedish Razor. Bet Torrey bought that from the Swedes?

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    Thank you for the info. Where should you date it?

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    Your's is quite old. Torrey was a stropmaker and bought the first razors he sold from Joseph Turner in Connecticut.
    That Tang stamp was from back when he brought Turner in to run the company. 1880 or thereabouts.
    I think the earliest Torrey stamp there. It might actually be a bit earlier.
    Who's to say Torrey didn't have some framebacks made with his name on them?
    Yours (And mine) look a ringer for old Eskilstuna razors.

    Some Torrey history from Martin here..

    https://sharprazorpalace.com/show-te...ml#post1092110

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    Thanks so much. I knew someone would know what I had. I like the shave a frameback gives but never saw that Torrey stamp before. Thanks for your knowledge.
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    Sure! Joseph Turner was a Razor enigma. Trained at Wostenholm, hired away by the Scissormaker in NJ, R. Heinisch.
    Over to partner with Colishaw in Conn and had his own stamp after that. Making early Torreys from Conn and hired to run the show at Torrey. Quite the career! Still searching for a nice Joseph Turner Conn razor. Hard to find!

    Anyway, I have an old one with your stamp. Great shaver!


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