Thread: My Sweeniest razor yet!

Stop the press! I just dug up more information on Nortzell & Son (instead of sleeping, sometimes I research razors, it's how I keep my youthful appearance).

I dug up a registry of military button makers and found that Nortzell & Son was Nortzell & Broughton until 1832, so this razor is from 1832 at the earliest. There is a large and mysterious gap between 1838 and 1863, but by 1864 the happy Nortzell lot had moved to a different address.

Thomas Nortzell began making buttons in 1809, started making army & navy buttons with the Henry Broughton in 1814 and became a general purpose hardwareman (as well as button-maker) in 1822. It was in 1832 that he kicked Broughton to the curb in preference for his (in this listing) woefully unnamed son.

(and I still haven't done anything to fix it up because I am eyeball deep in deadline for work)

Originally Posted by Voidmonster

Stop the press! I just dug up more information on Nortzell & Son (instead of sleeping, sometimes I research razors, it's how I keep my youthful appearance).
I dug up a registry of military button makers and found that Nortzell & Son was Nortzell & Broughton until 1832, so this razor is from 1832 at the earliest.

Great job. I didn't think it fit the earlier time frame. At first glance, I thought it was more 1840 ish

Thanks for the history lesson. Hope you enjoy that good looking cutthroat razor.

I've been slowly building up my restoration skills and I've started poking at this razor again.

It's had a real... Interesting repair. One half of the scales are tortoise shell, the other is dyed horn. THAT's why these scales confused me before. They're BOTH. But wow is the tortoise in bad shape. It's the side that's split and warped.

Awesome history to this ... thanks for the knowledge!

Now that the name Broughton has come up, I have a razor stamped Broughton 135 Fenchurch St. Only one I’ve ever seen. Came as a loose blade in a bulk lot.