Thread: A Wade & Butcher, Colonial Revival style

Wow... very similar to the Tally-Ho that I have.

Wow, I really love the tang shape. Looks like I have a new razor style on my wishlist.

Originally Posted by EisenFaust

Bah I wanted those too!! Glad someone here got them at least. Will be an awesome pair.

Were you watching both of them too? I never would've imagined coming across two auctions like that could be so annoying to me, but it utterly broke my tidy little bidding strategy. I woulda rather just gotten one... But then I would've had to choose, because the owner's engraving on this one is awfully cool, but the other one was mostly in much better shape! ARGH!

Originally Posted by Durhampiper

Sweet score! Waaaay cool!

This pretty much kills my post-1830 RAD, leaving me only vulnerable to blades made before then.

Originally Posted by jcsixx

that is a beautiful razor. i'm envious. All sort of shades of green.

I'm looking forward to shaving with it, though I may need to fix the scales first. But it won't be that hard to just slap a strip of tape on and hone it. If the scales break in the process, what's the worst that could happen? Besides arterial spray.

Originally Posted by Hopper

Wow... very similar to the Tally-Ho that I have.

Wow! So it is! Until these two Wade & Butchers, I hadn't seen any like that. My Tally-Ho has a much more defined heel, though the tang does taper down in quite a bit. Yours looks considerably older. Enough so to make me start doubting my theory on the style. Though I suppose there's no real reason that Fenney couldn't have been chasing the retro nostalgia vibe for the English market with that one.

Originally Posted by livingontheedge

Wow, I really love the tang shape. Looks like I have a new razor style on my wishlist.

I was able to find reference to two other Wade & Butchers like this, or at least two other ones with the 'The Celebrated Old Amy Razor' stamp. Otherwise, I hadn't seen any like this. And then of course, I posted here, and as usual, the amazingly deep knowledge base of this forum had another example!

I love this place.

You couldn't help yourself and took the two of them, uh? I wanted just one, but noooooooo... you had to have them both.

Next time...

Originally Posted by Snake

You couldn't help yourself and took the two of them, uh? I wanted just one, but noooooooo... you had to have them both.

Next time...

<hangs his head>

I'm a bad, bad man.

Originally Posted by Voidmonster

<hangs his head>

I'm a bad, bad man.

You may redeem yourself by letting me have the next one that comes up. Look out for mvirdo or, as the bay likes to refer to me, m****o.

I'm keeping my out one you!


Marcos

ps: faster karma if you just give me one.

Originally Posted by Snake

You may redeem yourself by letting me have the next one that comes up. Look out for mvirdo or, as the bay likes to refer to me, m****o.

Two is my limit, all the rest are yours!

I got the second Celebrated Old Army Razor today.




This one is a full 7/8 at its widest. It has more hone wear. It's always interesting to see how handmade things can be the same and different (Zen koan style).

What I wasn't expecting, and couldn't see from the pictures on eBay, is that this one also has a name engraved on it.



Unfortunately, this one isn't legible. I think it says Jonathon E. Holly, Woodstown. It appears to be the hand of the same engraver though.

BUT, that 'Woodstown' is awfully ambiguous. The second 'w' looks wrong. And of course so much of the name is missing that I have to make an educated guess based on the size. At some point someone used sandpaper to try and clean this up enough to read. It didn't really work.

Supposing that it is Woodstown, there is pretty much one option. Woodstown, NJ.

What's then interesting is that both Danville Ohio and Woodstown are quite early settlements and could be plausibly linked to Colonial era folks. Bolstering my theory that the razors date from 1880 or so, Woodstown doesn't appear to have officially been called Woodstown until 1882. Though there is no state engraved on this one, there's only one Woodstown that I can find while there are many Danvilles.

The great irony here is that, while this razor is in many ways in better shape, it's also got some of the most disfiguring damage.

Last night I spent some time with the micromesh and cleaned the worst of the crud off the other razor. Its scales are still in desperate need of fixing (and I have some plans for how to do that without creating new ones), but its looking much nicer.

Here's the pair of them.

I was able to find reference to two other Wade & Butchers like this, or at least two other ones with the 'The Celebrated Old Amy Razor' stamp. Otherwise, I hadn't seen any like this. And then of course, I posted here, and as usual, the amazingly deep knowledge base of this forum had another example!


In fact, I have two of them.... both are Tally-Ho "Adamantine Edge." One is a 6/8 (left one in the picture) with the nice etchings and the other is a 7/8 with the nice patina; both are wedge.

Originally Posted by Hopper

I was able to find reference to two other Wade & Butchers like this, or at least two other ones with the 'The Celebrated Old Amy Razor' stamp. Otherwise, I hadn't seen any like this. And then of course, I posted here, and as usual, the amazingly deep knowledge base of this forum had another example!


In fact, I have two of them.... both are Tally-Ho "Adamantine Edge." One is a 6/8 (left one in the picture) with the nice etchings and the other is a 7/8 with the nice patina; both are wedge.

Awesome! And wow, the etch on that one. Gorgeous! What all is on the coffin for that?

And I don't suppose either of those have names engraved on them?