Straight Razor Auction Ending 5/21

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Straight razor. Wostenholm & sons celebrated razor wedge blade on a black pressed horn handle featuring a train with tender and two cars on the front, the pile has floral decoration with "Locomotive Razor" centered in a rope border.

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Straight razor. Simmons Hardware Co hollow ground blade etched Keen Kutter on a fancy aluminum handle featuring a dancing woman on the front and the words Keen Kutter on the pile side. Figural cast aluminum handled straight razors are quite rare as aluminum was a new and expensive alloy at the time these Art Nouveau razors were popular.

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Straight razor. Joseph Rodgers & Sons hollow ground blade on a decorative mother of pearl handle with hand drilled and pinned piqué work on both sides. The number "1362" indicates an inventory number from the Henry T. Lummus Collection assembled before 1920. The six carved panels of mother of pearl are attached to shaped metal liners. C-1840.he number "1362" indicates an inventory number from the Henry T. Lummus Collection assembled before 1920. The six carved panels of mother of pearl are attached to shaped metal liners. C-1840.

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Straight razor. 18thC Mundy blade on a tortoise shell handle with inlaid silver flowers and birds. The inlaid tortoiseshell scales are attached to brass liners to provide strength at the time if manufacture. Extremely rare, the only one like this I have seen.

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Straight razor. C.H. Poincet Paris hollow ground blade on an aluminum handle with a cityscape on the front, the plie side depicts two structures and a banner labeled Exposition Universelle Paris 1900. This is a very high end Worlds Fair Exhibition Razor, the only one I have ever seen. figural cast aluminum handled straight razors are quite rare as aluminum was a new and expensive alloy at the time these Art Nouveau razors were manufactured.

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Straight razor. W. Smith hollow ground razor on a carved bone handle with a center escutcheon plate on the front.

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Straight razor. Unbranded hollow ground blade on a black pressed horn handle with portraits of Tyran and George Prince Regent on the front, and portraits of Fredric William and Alexander on the pile side. The scratched number on the pile side head end identifies this piece as part of the Henry T. Lummus Collection assembled before 1920. 

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Straight razor. Joh. Engstrom Eskilstuna Medailler 1876 razor stamped Dannemora-Gjutstal on a sterling silver handle with a unique pattern on both sides. The pile side in monogrammed in the center of the decoration. This is a frameback Razor with a wafer blade. The only one I have seen with a Sterling Silver handle.

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Straight razor. NR. Plusult wedge blade on a mottled horn handle with a portrait and eagle on the front and pile sides.

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Straight razor. "Warranted" wedge blade on a mottled pressed horn handle with various animal scenes on the front, the pile side features different scenes of birds.

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Straight razor. Allen's improved razor partially hollow ground blade. The mother of pearl handle has a center scale pattern around an escutcheon plate, and decorative silver end caps, the wedge pin cap features an eagle and the words "E Pluribus Unum". The pile side mirrors the front without the escutcheon plate. Carved six panel mother of pearl Handle attached to figural cut metal liners to match. Thirteen stars, one for each State in the Union, over the early spread eagle on head end embossed covers. The center pearl panels are heavily checkered with beaded perimeter. This was an extremely high end presentation Razor when it was manufactured C-1820.

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Straight razor. Mac Leod College St Edina blade on a very rare select horn handle with deep coloring throughout the front and pile side. This Handle material is the rarest that you will find in an early Razor. I have witnessed four, including the folding straight razor carried by the Duke of Marlborough. All four that I have encountered over the past 50 years, I kept. You will search for many years and most likely will never find one. I do not know why this "select horn" is so rare. It must have been extremely hard to find this kind of grain on a single horn.

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Straight razor. W. Greaves & Sons hollow ground blade on a bone handle with a rope pattern throughout the front and pile sides.

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Straight razor. "Warranted" wedge blade on a fancy pressed horn handle featuring a portrait of Wellington between a coat of arms and crossed branches, the pile side depicts a figure titles "Liberty" surrounded by leaves.

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Straight razor. Gilbert Saville Works Sheffield Extra Hollow Ground & MFG in Germany blade etched Alabama with a picked bone handle and center escutcheon plate. Note: Razor manufacturers were always marketing to shavers with the latest current event. CSS Alabama was a screw sloop-of-war built in 1862 for the Confederate States Navy at Birkenhead on the River Mersey opposite Liverpool, England by John Laird Sons and Company.[3] Alabama served as a successful commerce raider, attacking Union merchant and naval ships over the course of her two-year career, during which she never docked at a Southern port. She was sunk in June 1864 by USS Kearsarge.

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Straight razor. F.A. Koch & Co. Faultless Made in Germany hollow ground blade on a fancy pattern aluminum handle featuring a clothed woman by the wedge pin, the pile side shows an alligator and "Faultless" in large lettering.

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Straight razor. Wade & Butcher Sheffield hollow ground blade on a black horn handle featuring an ornate pattern of inlaid mother of pearl pieces. The pile side is smooth and inscribed with numbers near the pivot and wedge pins. The scratched number on the pile side head end identifies this piece as part of the Henry T. Lummus Collection assembled before 1920. 

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Straight razor. Sheffield England hollow ground blade on a mother of pearl handle with decoration on the front and pile sides near the pivot pin. Note: Four carved panels of mother of pearl are attached to shaped metal liners.

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Straight razor. Wostenholm blade on a clear pressed horn handle featuring hunting dogs on the front and pile sides.

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Straight razor. Hollow ground bade with makers marks on the front and pile side of the shoulder, the sterling silver handle has the word "Friday" surrounded by a unique pattern on the front, the pile side features an ornate floral and leaf pattern. This lot also includes an original leather case.