Please help with this silver steel wedge, the writing says "Miroved Silver Steel" , but can't find any info on the manufacturer.
Help identifying wedge silver steel
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improved silver steel
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Thanks, what language is that ? it could help trying to find out the manufacturer
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LOL forget my dumb reply
The lettering was just worn off the spine or wasn’t evenly stamped in when it was made. No way to know the maker without a tang stamp, might not even be one. Lots of razors in the Sheffield trade in the 19th century were “jobbing work”. Basically a forger would churn out a ton of blanks of the same blade which would then go to grinders and hefters (the men who did the scales) and were sold either unmarked, or a batch was divided up and multiple manufacturers would have basically the same razor but with their own mark put in by the forger.
Interesting article on this kind of thing here:
Interesting article on this kind of thing here:
