Thread: A Wade & Butcher, Colonial Revival style

Originally Posted by Voidmonster

I'm currently planning on building a razor army to take over the world. I figure I'll need one razor for every man, woman and child on the planet.

Shave the children!

Okay, I've debunked my own theory.



That ad ran in the Public Ledger of Philadelphia, PA on March 25, 1851.

These are most definitely not Colonial Revival Style. They were, however, clearly meant to invoke 1700's razors.

Originally Posted by Voidmonster

I've also been doing more digging, as I always do, and I turned up this interesting tidbit:

From Peninsula Enterprise, August 16, 1890:
This is the closest thing I can find to a reference to 'Celebrated Old Army Razor'. The thing is, I can't find any references to the Gilbert Brothers going back that far. They show up in an 1857 Sheffield directory, and in an 1851 World Trade Expo, but I can't find any earlier references.

Could this be The Gilbert Brothers from the article? http://straightrazorpalace.com/custo...my-1776-a.html

Sydney Nixon, of Mt. Holly, N.C. has a razor one hundred and fifteen years old. It was manufactured by Gilbert Brothers, Sheffield, England, and has this inscription: "The Celebrated Old Army razor." Under the inscription is the date, 1775. The razor was carried through the war of 1812 by Major Conner, of Beatties Ford."

Not quite sure I'm following this mention since Gilbert Brothers was founded in 1839?

Originally Posted by Martin103

Could this be The Gilbert Brothers from the article? http://straightrazorpalace.com/custo...my-1776-a.html

Sydney Nixon, of Mt. Holly, N.C. has a razor one hundred and fifteen years old. It was manufactured by Gilbert Brothers, Sheffield, England, and has this inscription: "The Celebrated Old Army razor." Under the inscription is the date, 1775. The razor was carried through the war of 1812 by Major Conner, of Beatties Ford."

Not quite sure I'm following this mention since Gilbert Brothers was founded in 1839?

That's absolutely the Gilbert Brothers talked about in the article, and the article is 100% wrong on when the razor was made.

As near as I can tell, these Celebrated Old Army Razors were 1840-1860ish.