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Anyone know anything about T. Ascher?
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I just got this fella. Roughly 13/16, about a II 1/2 on the Henckel scale. THICK blade -- a full quarter inch at the tang and only marginally thinner along the blade, swage back, hollow toe. That little decorative bar on the scales appears to be silver. REALLY nicely cut jimping on the top and bottom. It's a heavy beast.
The tang reads:
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SUPE SILV STEEL
T. ASCHER
SHEFFIELD
The single reference I can find to T. Ascher is from the second Lummus article, which has a gigantic T. Ascher Masonic razor with the same tang stamp and dated to 1845. I cannot find any references in the Sheffield directories. Any more info would be greatly appreciated!
For now it goes into the neatsfoot oil. It's the second razor in a row which peeks out the bottom of its scales. This one I want to do only the bare minimum of cleanup and structural fixes on. Initially I thought the toe was a bit unevenly honed, but I'm not so sure. The bevel is pretty even all along the edge, only really widening when the toe curves up. It's not as pronounced a taper as the Elliot, Greaves and Marshes & Ponds I've seen, but this one does appear to be deliberate.