Straight Razor Auction Ending 5/20

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Straight razor. 19thC Crude, Chinese with peg handle.

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Straight razor. Yankee Cutlery Co. Germany, Magnetized with raised patriotic pattern #24 of spread American Eagle and stars and stripes. Rare.

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Straight razor. George Wostenholm C-1850 black horn handle with mother of pearl inlay. Wedge blade slightly hollow ground. Note Hairline age crack in black horn handle. Lummus Collection #1053 on pile side head end.

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Straight razor. W.H. Moreley & Sons Clover Brand. Rare celluloid handle pattern of full length nude woman #39. Crude period repin.

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Straight razor. Gratian Warranted. C-1800 with fantastic inlays in black horn handle. Note damage to bottom edge. Very rare.

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Straight razor. Griffon XX, Carbo Magnetic etched blade. Very ornate figural aluminum handle having a beautiful woman with floral design on front and "Keen Kutter" with scroll on pile side.

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Straight razor. Hardware Co. in KS. Hollow ground blade. Fancy yellowish/green raised Owl pattern #50.

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Straight razor. W.H. Sample & Sons Albany, NY "Our Chief" with four section carved mother of pearl handle on shaped metal backing. A rare American maker with personalized name "J. Stautner." Note damage. Handle complete and tight.

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Straight razor. The earliest, and perhaps nicest "Wostenholm" example I have seen. C-1810-15 mottled pressed horn handle with elaborate hunting scenes on both sides. Dogs tracking while hunter aims on one side. Dogs chasing a fox on the other. Extremely rare.

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Straight razor. Antoni Tadross Made in Germany. An extremely rare celluloid handle pattern that I do not have in my book. A lighthouse scene with sailing vessel surrounded by a raised beaded pattern. Full beaded pattern on pile side. I have not seen another. Arrived after book was published in 2005.

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Straight Razor. George Wostenholm & Sons Celebrated I*XL Razor Washington Works rare Stag antler handle. C-1850. It has always amazed me that Wostenholm named their early factory after "George Washington." It shows that once the Revolutionary war was over, it was business as usual in Sheffield where they manufactured for the American market.

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Straight Razor. Jack Knife Ben Union Stock Yards. Blade etched "Pride of The West" with an imitation ivory handle having a great engraved metal inlaid scene of a Cowboy on horseback with dog chasing steer. Pattern #91.

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Straight Razor. Universally Approved C-1820 black buffalo horn handle with partial silver inlay of Cowboy on horseback with dog. Note imprint for another dog and a deer where the silver is missing. Perhasps a jeweler could fill in the missing silver restoring the early seen. This handle was illustrated on page 31 of my 1980 book "Straight Razor Collecting."

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Straight Razor. SRD stamped on tang of this mother of pearl handled Corn Razor. A beauty.

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Straight Razor. Devon MFG. Co. A very nice example of a full length Ear of Corn pattern celluloid handle #83 illustrated in my book "Celluloid Handle Guide for Straight Razor Collectors."

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Straight Razor. John S. Holler "Tower Brand" pickbone handle with inlaid escutcheon plate. An elegant piece. Great example of pickbone.

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Straight Razor. H. Boker & Co. Wow - Gold washed blade, mother of pearl tang covers, etched blade and scarce handle pattern. I thought I had this in the book. But, I don't, which means it arrived after 2005 into my collection. How could there be only one?

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Straight Razor.Silver Steel Warranted C-1840 carved one-piece bone handles having uniquely shaped inlaid escutcheon plate. Rare.

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Straight Razor. "Dante Ermini Firenze" etched on blade. Solingen on tang. Fancy decorated imitation ivory celluloid handle with military motiff. Another pattern not represented in the pattern book. This is one of the reasons I always loved collecting razors. You never know what you will find.

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Straight Razor. B.B. Cutlery Sheffield. Fully etched wedge blade with George Washington standing above "Champion of Liberty" with a crude bone handle. Rare maker. C-1860.