I just bought this wade and butcher razor from a guy in America. He tells me he dates it around 1870.
It would have been forged here, 2 hours up the road from me in Sheffield England, then packaged and sent by steam ship from Liverpool (no planes then)3000 miles across the cold Atlantic Ocean.
Edward VII was the king of England, Ulysses S. Grant was president of the US.
Claude Monet was painting the Beach at Trouville, Jules Verne was finishing Around the World in Eighty Days and a 19 year old Doc Holiday left had just left home for Philadelphia.
The phonograph, telephone, and electric light bulb would all be invented during this decade though it would take several more decades before they became household items.
So these were the times this razor was born into.
It had a 150 year stay in America, 2 lifetimes, and now, finally, it’s made the return trip to England.
Across the Atlantic again, this time by air, landing once again in the city of Liverpool to be delivered to me.
Its a 7/8th near wedge with a pretty smile.
It’s in great condition, still looks like new, a testament to a bygone era when things were really built to last.
Today it gave me just as perfect a shave as it no doubt gave it’s original owner a century and a half ago.
It would have been forged here, 2 hours up the road from me in Sheffield England, then packaged and sent by steam ship from Liverpool (no planes then)3000 miles across the cold Atlantic Ocean.
Edward VII was the king of England, Ulysses S. Grant was president of the US.
Claude Monet was painting the Beach at Trouville, Jules Verne was finishing Around the World in Eighty Days and a 19 year old Doc Holiday left had just left home for Philadelphia.
The phonograph, telephone, and electric light bulb would all be invented during this decade though it would take several more decades before they became household items.
So these were the times this razor was born into.
It had a 150 year stay in America, 2 lifetimes, and now, finally, it’s made the return trip to England.
Across the Atlantic again, this time by air, landing once again in the city of Liverpool to be delivered to me.
Its a 7/8th near wedge with a pretty smile.
It’s in great condition, still looks like new, a testament to a bygone era when things were really built to last.
Today it gave me just as perfect a shave as it no doubt gave it’s original owner a century and a half ago.
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