Razor Hunt

Went on a razor hunt today around Auckland, I visited about 5 antique shops on my hunt one had almost 100 straight razors before xmas but got cleaned out so that let me a bit gutted I'd missed out. One guy says he has 4 upstairs which he can't find but will call me when he does apparentl at least one has whale bone scales.

I did have some luck though I found a shop with about 6 Bengall straights, 3 had ivory scales and the rest were some form of plastic, I sorted through and picked the ones with the best blade condition and ended up with one ivory and one plastic scales.

Ivory scales ....
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Plastic scales ....
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I'm going to try my first restoration job on the plastic scaled one.
Thanks for looking and if anyone has any idea on age of these two please let me know.

Congrats, clean them up & get them shaving.


THOMAS RADLEY CADMAN & SONS
St. Mary's Road, Sheffield
In business at least 1892-1919

Thanks for the dates good to know they are around 100 years old. Wonder how long they have been in New Zealand :hmmm:

that razor will look so good if you clean it up a bit....some sandpaper and elbow grease. then get it on the stones for a great edge :) nice find!

Here's a link for future use.

Straight Razor Manufacturers and Dates of Operation

Cheers Sleek it'll be my first time so bit nervous but will be doing LOTS of research so I don't mess it up, also glad others are liking my finds.

Thanks Hirlau I have that bookmarked from before but forgot al about it doh!

Nice score mate antique shops my neck o the woods don't come up with that much gold!

There is just the one out of about 6 in my area that has any and it's mainly Bengalls but most are quite nice, I had both of them honed and are nice shavers and will be sending them out for a custom rescale and bit of clean up.