My oldest. Evatt Cast Steel, 1790s I'd say.
Now there's one I've never seen before...I wonder if that's the only one left? Neat idea, right?
My oldest. Evatt Cast Steel, 1790s I'd say.
My current oldest....
I win!
Main at all I must to present mysels, I´m Robert from Galiza, a little county in the northern Spain. You can see it in my horrible english, sorry, I spect you could undertand me. My colectin, and all my razors in use are english razors, I prefer them to shave me and The Shefield subtailed for me are the most interesting to study the razors evolution. The question, what are my aoldest one?, is dificult to complain, If I can I´ll present you only five of my razors collection, if you could see the photo you can follow me easily, The fist on the top, is an archeological one, made in Spain provably, I´m not sure about the use, nevertheless a lot of profesionals mark this knifes like razors, Around 16th century...... The next , left to rigth is a Shepherd one, with his usually mark, WOLF crowned, around 1780, then maybe a french one, I´m not sure because I have two or three razors untailed marked in Eyan and Norfolk, For me is not sure all the untailed razor must be french, nevertheless around 1780-90, Then a Milns & Flower, Charles Milns & Richard Flower was disolved in 1800, provabli 1780, And an ivory subtailed, carved, Osborn, sure before 1810, well, I´ll present my razors with a better camera..., regard and thanks to recive me.View attachment 447263
Thanks a lot, if you want to find my land, unfortunely you must find Galicia, Galiza is the cotrrect name but is not the name acepted for our colonist, Spain. Regards
Roberto,
There are many shavers who like La Toja shaving products and these come from Galicia, I believe.
Personally, I like your wines, white Ribeiros and - as I generally prefer reds - Valdeorras.
And finally, there is Santiago de Compostela that some may better remember from the Martin Sheen/Emilio de Estevez movie "The Way".
Galicia may not be widely known by name, but it certainly has much to offer.
i am sorry for the Spanish spelling, but the original Galiza name may become more widely used with time...
Does anyone have a clue how old this W&B is? Based on the blade design I'd say it's an older model. The tang just say's Wade&Butcher and an ankor. No other inscriptions, adornments or washings or stuff like that. The scales are not origins I might add.
Does anyone have a clue how old this W&B is? Based on the blade design I'd say it's an older model. The tang just say's Wade&Butcher and an ankor. No other inscriptions, adornments or washings or stuff like that. The scales are not origins I might add.
Does anyone have a clue how old this W&B is? Based on the blade design I'd say it's an older model. The tang just say's Wade&Butcher and an ankor. No other inscriptions, adornments or washings or stuff like that. The scales are not origins I might add.
Those are all amazingly old and amazingly beautiful blades
C. Klauberg& Bros is my oldest at somewhere between1837 & 1861.I had no idea of the age until a friend asked to borrow it and i was forced to do googling
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I hope this thread perseveres!
Max
Got this a while ago but it's not so much old as it may be rare. 1850 or so. I'm honing it up now to use it.
It belonged to the Marquis de Goulaine. The 11th Marquis still working the oldest family business in Europe at 1000 yrs. now. The Chateau is still in the family and construction was started in the year 970.
It has been verified by the French Heritage Collection. The history of these Papillon razors is fascinating.
This one has had painted Whale bone scales, etched blades.
I do have others in my collection that may be older but this I think is just too cool. I got it from a private collector in Palm Springs.
It's held pretty much the same as any razor but more of a grip on the shaft.
I did hone it as the post indicates and shaved with it that same night. Both blades shaved incredibly well. I would love to use it more often as it could easily be one of my favorites but I hesitate due to the provenance . It would be my luck to drop it on the tile floor. Discretion in this case may be the better part of valor. But I'm sure I'll use it again.