Thread: Awesome score for 20 bucks(F. Herder & John Barber)

SO I wanted to get an almost perfect razor cheap, so I went to the Dutch eBay surrogate and offered €12.50 for 2 razors in one sale. One razor was a F. Herder Abrahams Sohn and the other one was 'unknown'. They were heirlooms of the seller who had no use for them. The Herder looked good(almost no rust) so I offered the money and she accepted.

So they arrived a week ago and I really like the Herder. It's a number 20, hollow ground, shoulderless, 13/16, muted square point(please correct me if I'm wrong) in black celluloid scales.
There was a little rust on the spine and towards the toe, but I'm busy with handsanding it(I'll finish with a progression to 2000 grit later) and the pivot was a bit loose, but that was fixed with a little peening. After sanding I intend to get it honed, maybe at Rasurpur or Neil Miller(unless someone can recommend a Dutch honemeister)

The other razor I hadn't paid attention to as the horn scale was broken on the back scale, there is rust on the tail and the blade has a lot of patina on it. But I got wondering about it be cause the razor is quite long(shoulder to toe is 3 1/8 inch). So I looked it up, and holy cow, that's an old razor. I wouldn't have guessed from the size of the tail. It's a 13/16 to 7/8 smiling blade with a barber notch, double shoulder(again, correct me if I'm wrong) in horn scales.
I plan to get it repaired and rescaled sometime by someone who knows what he's doing(i.e. not me).

I'll add them to the SRP database later.

enough bull, pictures!

Cool. Nice snag.

That John Barber does look later than 1830, especially the tail.