Thread: Another Antique Store Find (pic Heavy)

Okay, I can't be 100% certain on this, but I strongly suspect that I. Isaacs is the name of a hardware store or somesuch retailer and not a manufacturer name.

I grew up in Wilkes-Barre and never heard of any kind of foundry there, let alone one that made razors (it was a coal city, (and, at one time brewing city as in Stegmeier beer), not steel a city).

I have, on the other hand, come across half a dozen or so other razors that were stamped with a retailer's name and Wilkes-Barre on one side of the tang, and Made in Germany or Solingen on the reverse side.

As for 'Radium', I believe there were a few different manufactures who put that on the tang or etched it on the blade (such as Boker) as a selling point/advertisement to make the steel sound special.

In other words, I'm sorry to say that I think uncovering the manufacture of this one will be nigh impossible unless you some how manage to find out what manufacturer the retailer 'I. Isaacs' (in the pick it looks like an I followed by a period rather than an L) bought his blades from.

What's important though is that it may well make for a mighty fine shaver.

Good luck and nice finds! (The shoulderless blade with the etching has some very nice lines.)