Yesterday's catch: Joseph Smith's Celebrated 3415

Hi Folks !

Made the best of yesterday's depressing, drizzly afternoon: went razor hunting. :) Found my first Joseph Smith & Sons "Celebrated Razor 3415".

Despite a broken scale (bone, by the way), I was quite excited and still am. 11/ 16 wedge. All in all, pretty decent shape for a 150 + year-old !

Unpinned it and gave the blade a quick clean up. See pics. Some moderate pitting on the tang now makes the original annotation sound like "...H & SONS... LEBRATED RAZOR 3415". LOL !!! :p

Also, it would take an expert eye (which I still lackbig time !) to tell whether or not the moderate pitting about an inch from the toe will prevent it from ever becoming a shaver again. I am pretty sure it is shallow enough, but will most likely require one of our expert restorers such as Undream to have a close look "in person".

All in all, I'm quite excited and wanted to share this with you ! :beer2:

Cheers !

Vintage Smurf

I wish you luck but I think that block of pitting going up from the bevel is going to be too deep and fall apart when you go to hone it. I hope I'm wrong.

Good luck - sometimes the joy is in the pursuit.

Good luck and let us know how you get on.

I do agree with Jimmy, that pitting on the edge might cause a few problems, but hopefully you will be lucky..! :gl:

Should clean up nice!

I'm rooting for ya , but I have to agree with Jimmy that block of pitting on the edge is not a good thing and is probably gona pose a big problem :(