Information requested about recent eBay find

[Shave Ready]

Picked this one up on the cheap...real cheap...from eBay a couple of weeks ago. The tang reads "Rogers", followed by "XY Quality", followed by "Sheffield". I bought this accidentally thinking I was picking up a Joseph Rodgers & Sons, but it's not a bad shaver. Scales probably aren't original - the wedge appears to be made out of cork!

Curious though, about the maker - does anyone have any information?


Tang:


Flashy scales:


Cross-section:

 

[tomjr]

nice looking blade. no info though.

 

[SliceOfLife]

Looks like a cheaper brand late-era straight. Never heard of the maker, but most of the barber kits I've picked up were filled with these sort of razors, and they all worked fine. Just affordable, hollow ground straights for barbers and home shavers, that didn't cost a fortune since you'd inevitably wear them down with use. Rich guys may have had ivory-scaled 7 day sets of W&B, but most barbers seem to have had a handful of razors they got cheap and touched up between every shave, razors like this one. They'd wear them down to a nub and replace them.

 

[hillbilly]

Seen lots of razors like that with same scales. Probably O.G. check the pins and washers match and are unmolested. Nice razor.

 

[Shave Ready]

Thanks all. Your explanations make sense to me. I could see how a "lower-end" razor might have ultra-cheap scales but a serviceable blade for the market demographic it targeted. It is a good shaver - not my best, but still good enough to stay in the rotation .

I think what I was also curious about is the "XY Quality" stamp. Does that mean anything, or is it just marketing? Like, "XY Quality" is for men, and "XX Quality" is for women?