Thread: 1840's is awful young for me, but I'll take it! Revitt & Hull

I almost certain this is the same Revitt as the William Revitt who was producing razors out of Sheffield earlier in the century. A search on directories turns up only an 1846 listing for Revitt & Hull.

The tang stamp says 'Revitt & Hull / Manufacturers / Sheffield' and it's got a thumb notch with nice jimping. There's also a badly worn 'Revitt & Hull' stamp on the blade, inside a little hashed box like some early Greaves razors I've seen, but I'm pretty sure this is indeed an 1840's blade.

It's beefy, too.



The lead wedge is over 1/8ths of an inch and the blade itself is 1/4th of an inch at the widest. While it's only 6/8, it weighs as much as some 7/8 blades I have (and not particularly hollow 7/8s at that!).

Plus I really love the lines of this razor, with that tiny little hollow point up at the spine in place of a grob. The only other one I've seen like it is this one, and I can't find any others stamped Revitt & Hull.

The pictures you're seeing are how it came to me. I'll do some more clean up on it when I get a chance, but I'll be honing and shaving with it first.