Here's a set that shaves well; wedge and hollow (Solingen).
Show us your matching pairs
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I have the same "Bergischer Lowe" and it's among my favorite shavers! Love your pairs!!!
These are very cool - I have a hollow red imp that’s a little worse for wear than yours but it’s a great razor to use. I find mine very similar to the dubl ducks - reliably always a great shave
Steve56
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Thank you sir, you are very kind.
Here is a list of box makers, you can tell by the length of it that there were a lot of them.
Index of British Makers and Retailers - Antique Box Guide
Directory of British antique dressing case, antique toilet box, antique jewellery box and antique writing box manufacturers and retailers. These listings have been kept specific to the Regency, late Georgian, William IV and Victorian era’s. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z […]
www.antiquebox.org
Most of us are familiar with the English brand Lund, but the father and son were also box makers. Here’s a nice piece on them.
Lund - Antique Box Guide
Thomas Lund established his business and warehouse at 57 Cornhill, London in 1804. Initially selling pens and quills, Thomas had expanded the business by about 1815 to include the manufacture of cutlery, writing boxes and other fancy items, taking an additional premises at 56 Cornhill. By 1832...
www.antiquebox.org
I love the old boxes, and it is so difficult to find them in good shape.
Steve56
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Thank you Ronnie!
I have seen many 7 day sets
with the names of the days of the week engraved on the spines,
and many of those, engraved on a spot specially made to receive the engraving
or stamping as the case may be.
I have always thought of these as having been manufactured as 7 day sets,
which seems different from what you are saying.
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Steve56
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You see the big German and English brands in sets like that during the heyday, and some Swedish brands too, but I think that sets that were ‘made’ at the dealer or wholesaler were equally as common if not more so.
Thank you, guys. I can imagine there are other terms as well, I only knew "safe queen", which is basically the oppsite of "user grade".
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Papillon Wawick
Hold up just a second now... what's going on here? Is that what it looks like? I have not seen one of those before. Cool!
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Everyone in the world? Are you sure...?
[God I'm an annoying pedant. Please accept my apologies.]
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These two 6/8 Stuart Dawson's in ivory were part of a 7 day set I spotted going cheap on ebay a few months back.
4 razors were missing completely, one was unsalvageable with a massive chip and crack (though the scales were good so I'll save them), and then these two. There is the 7 day box too, but it's designed for very thin ivory scales so not much else fits in there.
This first I've tidied up a bit and honed already, and very nice it is:
And then this one which I took some little chips out of the edge last night but still need to clean up properly and hone, which I might do this afternoon. These razors were probably 13/16 originally or maybe even 7/8, but they're both spot on 6/8 now.
I noticed something fun when I was removing the chips last night, in that by complete coincidence I will actually have a 'weekend pair'. This 7 day set do actually have the days written on the spines, like what @DrStrange and @Steve56 were talking about above. The cracked un-saveable one was Tuesday, rest of the working week is missing, but these two remaining are Saturday and Sunday.
4 razors were missing completely, one was unsalvageable with a massive chip and crack (though the scales were good so I'll save them), and then these two. There is the 7 day box too, but it's designed for very thin ivory scales so not much else fits in there.
This first I've tidied up a bit and honed already, and very nice it is:
And then this one which I took some little chips out of the edge last night but still need to clean up properly and hone, which I might do this afternoon. These razors were probably 13/16 originally or maybe even 7/8, but they're both spot on 6/8 now.
I noticed something fun when I was removing the chips last night, in that by complete coincidence I will actually have a 'weekend pair'. This 7 day set do actually have the days written on the spines, like what @DrStrange and @Steve56 were talking about above. The cracked un-saveable one was Tuesday, rest of the working week is missing, but these two remaining are Saturday and Sunday.
Everyone in the world? Are you sure...?
Well, at least those who shaved and didn't use a knife, ax or farm implement. I, myself still occasionally shave with a sharp rock. Just for old times sake.
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Well, at least those who shaved and didn't use a knife, ax or farm implement. I, myself still occasionally shave with a sharp rock. Just for old times sake.
Haha, excellent!
Though that has reminded me of a strange internet rabbit hole I fell down a while back, which was reading up about the continued use of obsidian scalpels in modern surgery. Obsidian edges are apparently far more refined than than you could ever make steel, and so it's still used for some particularly delicate surgical operations that require very slick cuts and blemishless healing (like eyes n stuff)...
How Stone Age blades are still cutting it in modern surgery | CNN
Obsidian is a volcanic glass used to make tools for Stone-Age man -- and for modern surgeons.
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That's very cool isn't it.
Cheers for the link - I'd not seen one of those before. (As it happens I did actually know what 'papillon' meant, but didn't make the connection with the wings until you pointed it out!)
Natural black and white Ralf Aust set. Stainless steel in ivory and carbon steel African Blackwood.
Swedish twins.
Sheffield reunion. Bringing old friends back together.
Steve, ever since I saw your post, I keep coming back to this thread to see those two photos. Now I really want to find a pair for myself as well.
another pair to be added, with intent to honour originality, I kept the opal/silver acrylic for the scales but added some wedges for colours. 3M Tokiwa pair
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UK Ebay special in today; a pair of matching 6/8 or 13/16 Kropps in quite a nice box and extremely good condition, near-mint and highly polished. I'd always assumed Kropp was a German brand, but these are all Sheffield made, though I understand they were sometimes ground in Hamburg as well...(?)
Took me a while to figure out what the scales were, but I think they're Gutta Percha.
Took me a while to figure out what the scales were, but I think they're Gutta Percha.
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