Can someone help me identify this razor? Schulze type razor.

[Heljen]

Hello all,

Picked this one of ebay. It is a Schulze razor but the logo on the blade and scales are not the original (I think). Has anybody seen this before and could you give me some info on it? The tang reads: Made from best silver steel & finest hollow ground in the Schulze's hollow-grinding.

 

[Greybeard]

Paul Schulze is an excellent Solingen brand that has been around since the late 19th century. They are still in the steel manufacturing business today but stopped making straight razors sometime in the 1980s. Revisor acquired a quantity of NOS Schulze razors sometime in the last few years and is still selling them today. Herbert Wacker purchased the remaining blanks that Schulze had in stock, also sometime in the last few years, and ground and sold new razors from them.
Schulze brands included "Original Schuze", "Schulze", "Schulze Feinster Holschiff", "Known The World Over", "Selbstfahrer", "Schulze Inox", "Schulze Silber-Stahl", "ES-PE", and others I'm forgetting.

Yours is a vintage Schulze razor, a "Selbstfahrer" which translates to "self-propelled cart" (as shown in the logo). In the old days one of those carts that you motivated by pushing a handle with your arms, sometimes in conjunction with your legs. They could be used on roads or rails. The Selbstfahrer trademark was registered in 1912.
Yours looks like it's extra hollow ground. Schulze could grind razors very thin and it's probably a "singing" blade. I can only guess at the age, between the late 1920s to 1950.

Congratulations, Schulze razors are very good and one of the better Solingen brands. The steel is quite hard and holds a very sharp edge. I own three.

 

[Heljen]

Paul Schulze is an excellent Solingen brand that has been around since the late 19th century. They are still in the steel manufacturing business today but stopped making straight razors sometime in the 1980s. Revisor acquired a quantity of NOS Schulze razors sometime in the last few years and is still selling them today. Herbert Wacker purchased the remaining blanks that Schulze had in stock, also sometime in the last few years, and ground and sold new razors from them.
Schulze brands included "Original Schuze", "Schulze", "Feinster Holschiff", "Known The World Over", "Selbstfahrer", "Schulze Inox", "Schulze Silber-Stahl", "ES-PE", and others I'm forgetting.

Yours is a vintage Schulze razor, a "Selbstfahrer" which translates to "self-propelled cart" (as shown in the logo). In the old days one of those carts that you motivated by pushing a handle with your arms, sometimes in conjunction with your legs. They could be used on roads or rails. The Selbstfahrer trademark was registered in 1912.
Yours looks like it's extra hollow ground. Schulze could grind razors very thin and it's probably a "singing" blade. I can only guess at the age, between the late 1920s to 1950.

Congratulations, Schulze razors are very good and one of the better Solingen brands. The steel is quite hard and holds a very sharp edge. I own three.

Wauw thank you very much for the great info. . Always nice to hear about the history. . I really had no idea the blade could be over 60 years old.