Can anyone tell me about this razor?

[Walker]

MY Granfather caught this while crabbing one year when i was a little boy. My father just gave it to me after finding out i was into wet shaving. It looks like some kind of Ball End. The case i'm thinking used to have the canvas on it but being under water must have come off. I have cleaned it up with a Dremel and some MAAS. Somebody (i'm guessing my Grandfather must've tried to wire wheel the head of the razor and scuffed it up pretty good but other than that the handle looks in pretty good shape

 

[SmoovD]

ABC Floral is my guess.


BTW- like your signature line.

 

[Greybeard]

Old Type Pocket Edition. ABC Empire set.

 

[amishmotorboat]

Literally, nice catch.

 

[Chester]

Might be a good candidate for a replating in silver.
Nice catch!
-- Chet

 

[Walker]

Might be a good candidate for a replating in silver.
Nice catch!
-- Chet

That's something to think about!!

 

[bordeaaj]

Those seem to go for about $100 on the auction sites...a valuable heirloom! In fact, at the moment there are at least 3 up you can compare it with. Now that you're a hair we'll have to start calling you Hair Walker!

 

[Chester]

I'd recommend that you take a look at the American Button Company posts that DiPalma put together. Yours looks like an "empire" razor, and was likely the silver one (see: http://badgerandblade.com/vb/showthread.php?t=147111&highlight=american+button+company)

As for cases (see: http://badgerandblade.com/vb/showthread.php?t=147115), it looks like the plain case.

As you were hitting it with the dremel, I hope that you didn't lose much of the surface detail. It's a gorgeous razor.

-- Chet

 

[Walker]

I'd recommend that you take a look at the American Button Company posts that DiPalma put together. Yours looks like an "empire" razor, and was likely the silver one (see: http://badgerandblade.com/vb/showthread.php?t=147111&highlight=american+button+company)

As for cases (see: http://badgerandblade.com/vb/showthread.php?t=147115), it looks like the plain case.

As you were hitting it with the dremel, I hope that you didn't lose much of the surface detail. It's a gorgeous razor.

-- Chet

I first wiped it down with some MAAS and hand buffed it, then used one of the soft buffing wheels to buff it a little bit. It is still far from clean because of the fact of not wanting to damaging it. The damage was done to the head of the razor when whoever tried to wire wheel it. Thanks for all the info guys. Even though my Grandfather never used the razor it is still something that reminds me of him.

 

[Walker]

Those seem to go for about $100 on the auction sites...a valuable heirloom! In fact, at the moment there are at least 3 up you can compare it with. Now that you're a hair we'll have to start calling you Hair Walker!

I was thinking more along the lines of Stan-the-Man. Has that one been taken yet?

 

[Walker]

I'd recommend that you take a look at the American Button Company posts that DiPalma put together. Yours looks like an "empire" razor, and was likely the silver one (see: http://badgerandblade.com/vb/showthread.php?t=147111&highlight=american+button+company)

As for cases (see: http://badgerandblade.com/vb/showthread.php?t=147115), it looks like the plain case.

As you were hitting it with the dremel, I hope that you didn't lose much of the surface detail. It's a gorgeous razor.

-- Chet

It is in fact the Empire but in Gold unless the silver one turns to a brass color. That's great, so glad to finally know what this razor is. Thanks for that!!

 

[BBrad]

Caught while crabbing? Complete razor, blade safe, and case in a salt water environment?

There's got to be quite some story behind that adventure!!

Congrats on having something special from your grandfather!!

 

[bordeaaj]

I was thinking more along the lines of Stan-the-Man. Has that one been taken yet?

I don't know...Hair Walker has quite a distinctive ring to it! Plus think of all the graphic images people will conjure up wondering how you came to be known as Hair Walker!

 

[Walker]

Caught while crabbing? Complete razor, blade safe, and case in a salt water environment?

There's got to be quite some story behind that adventure!!

Congrats on having something special from your grandfather!!

Since your from New Hampshire you may have heard of Crab Dredging? Done in the winter time using these big steal drags were you drag the bottom for the crabs that are buried beneath the mud. He caught it doing that. I guess someone off of a ship or something lost it over the side while traveling the Chesapeake Bay.

 

[ShaveMark]

I was thinking more along the lines of Stan-the-Man. Has that one been taken yet?

I believe Mr. Musial has that dubious distinction!

 

[Stubblefield]

I don't know...Hair Walker has quite a distinctive ring to it!

Hair Walker, Texas Ranger.

 

[BBrad]

Since your from New Hampshire you may have heard of Crab Dredging? Done in the winter time using these big steal drags were you drag the bottom for the crabs that are buried beneath the mud. He caught it doing that. I guess someone off of a ship or something lost it over the side while traveling the Chesapeake Bay.

Exactly . . . Salt water environment, bottom of a bay, been there a while, and did the owner go overboard with it???

It would be quite a story if only the razor could talk!!!

 

[Cmaster03]

Exactly . . . Salt water environment, bottom of a bay, been there a while, and did the owner go overboard with it???

It would be quite a story if only the razor could talk!!!

That's what I was thinking...might be an interesting story behind that one.

Regardless, great keepsake of your grandfather. If it was me, I'd have it off to onotoman or buddydog or somebody for some re-plating. At one time I was using my ABC pocket razor every day- they're great razors.

 

[Walker]

Hair Walker, Texas Ranger.

I'm really starting to like this new name lol. Thanks for all the advice guys i am going to consider the re-plating. I also wish i knew the story behind it. Container Ships and Smaller Cruise Ships frequent the bay so it may just have an interesting story to tell lol