Thread: well picked on up with a mental value to it ..

McIntosh Good & C.O. from Cleveland O.H. ...since i can almost walk to Cleveland now and grew up in the area i had to pick this up .. one to have a historical piece from a once booming industry town and 2 because i like the looks .. guess thats all the reason i needed ..lol.. anyone opinions on this razor are welcome and an history is even more welcome .. i cant find anything other the McIntosh Huntington as far as in Cleveland ?????

correction !!! McIntosh Good & C.O. Cleveland O Horn .. mayb ?? well its starting to loose its mental value as being home town and beginning to look more like a purchase do to its looks ..lol... saw the Cleveland O and thought to fast ...lol.. owell ... still looking for any info if anyone has any !! thanks

This is another hardware dealer story. McIntosh, Good & Co. were operating a hardware business in Cleveland, Ohio by 1875. It became McIntosh, Huntington & Co., then McIntosh Hardware in 1903. The company was sold and renamed in 1911.

I saw that auction too and had thought of bidding. I really like the looks of the blade being shoulderless and all. Glad you got, enjoy.

Bob

Was looking at that one because of the Cleveland history too. It looked like there was some lettering stamped on the blade face. Can you see anything there?

Originally Posted by Martin103

This is another hardware dealer story. McIntosh, Good & Co. were operating a hardware business in Cleveland, Ohio by 1875. It became McIntosh, Huntington & Co., then McIntosh Hardware in 1903. The company was sold and renamed in 1911.

THANK YOU very much , maybe my way of search is off ..lol.. all i could find was the Huntington part in Cleveland and the dates it became that but nothing earlier , thank you again
so i can pretty much be sure the razor was produced between 1875-1903 .. it is pretty amazing to think about all these older razors , where they been , who might of had them ect , ect ... when i got into this whole straight razor shaving thing being a historical type of shave was on my mind but until i really started looking at all these razors on this site i have finally sat back and really put thought into the age of razors !!! thanks again for the info !!

Originally Posted by ScienceGuy

Was looking at that one because of the Cleveland history too. It looked like there was some lettering stamped on the blade face. Can you see anything there?

i noticed it also but couldnt see it looking at the pics .... when i get it ill try to read it .. i thought mayb the first part of it said "celebrated " but it could be a mental thing do to looking at all those other blades that do say celebrated on them ..lol

The scales are definitely black horn. The stamp on the blade itself is too obscured to fully read but most likely says something akin to "The Celebrated Concave Razor" It's almost certainly a Sheffield-made razor, stamped with the hardware store's name. The design is so typical of the late 1870's that I can only really say it could have been made by any of the top Sheffield producers at the time. It should be a superb shaver.

In 1872 it was the Reid, Good & Co. hardware store. Then in 1874 W.R. Reid sold his stakes to Mr. McIntosh -- so 1874 is the earliest date for that stamp. In 1879 they put in numerous bids with the Army Corps of Engineers for a construction project on the Mississipi river, but won none of the bids. The earliest date I can find for the later name, McIntosh, Good & Huntington is 1883. Yet, earlier in that year the Cleveland Asylum for the Insane purchased $26.25 worth of hardware from McIntosh, Good & Co.

So I think we can say quite definitively that your razor was made between 1874 and 1883. That's a really excellently narrow range for razors from that time period!

Originally Posted by Voidmonster

It's almost certainly a Sheffield-made razor, stamped with the hardware store's name. The design is so typical of the late 1870's that I can only really say it could have been made by any of the top Sheffield producers at the time. It should be a superb shaver.

That razor definately screems sheffield but lets remember that at this time American cutlery companies employed many Sheffielders to work in
their cutlery. Perhaps is was made right here. Looks familiar?

and yes this is an American made razor.

Indeed, a dead ringer! Good thing for the OP that I missed the end of that auction! I was watching that one!