Old catalogues

[str8six]

In the course of some googling about I ran into this WWI era catalogue by chance and noticed there are pages of razors:
Catalogue 27 : [barbers' supplies and furniture]. -- : Jones Bros. & Co., Limited : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

...and hones:
Catalogue 27 : [barbers' supplies and furniture]. -- : Jones Bros. & Co., Limited : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

And then I realised there was a promising link to a category:
https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject:"Barbershops+--+Equipment+and+supplies+Catalogs"

... but alas not a great many more. This one has prices though:
Illustrated catalogue and price list : Theo. A. Kochs (Firm), author : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

 

[Ice-Man]

Great find they are quite interesting just been reading them

 

[Twelvefret]

Thank you.

 

[str8six]

This search turned up a bunch more interesting things:
https://archive.org/search.php?query="razor hone"&sin=TXT

I should get on with lunch and back to work but a few notable ones stood out so far:

Someone in 1833 made a list of all hones known to him at the time:
NO. V. HONE-STONES, &C : Richard Knight : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

And there are a couple of manuals on shaving:
Shaving made easy; what the man who shaves ought to know .. : 20th century correspondence school, New York. [from old catalog] : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Essay on barbers' razors, razor hones, razor strops and razor honing .. : Le Blanc, Napoleon. [from old catalog] : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive