146 Regent St -- A very strange razor.
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SRP member ScienceGuy pointed this razor out to me on eBay because it is very odd. I then bought it.
Because it is very odd.
The escutcheon plate is beautifully engraved Tellier.
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The scales are ivory, and you might have noticed that they have rather a lot of pins in them that aren't purely decorative.
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The spine is very thick for a razor of this size (a scanty 5/8), the wedge is not a wedge, there is a brass liner under the ivory and ... what on earth is going on with the tail? I originally thought it had been ground off and reshaped -- bizarrely, but I was wrong.
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Something else is going on here.
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The scales are closed at the bottom.
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The pivot end.
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The first thing you notice when you open the razor is that it's held closed, so you pull, there's a slight give and then the blade swings smoothly, freely out. And it's got a very oddly shaped tang.
And the rest will be in the next post, because LOTS of pictures...