Straight Razor Auction Ending 7/15

More Info / Bid Track Item

Straight Razor. Manufactured By Wade & Butcher Sheffield. C-1840-60. The heavy wedge blade is stamped across the top “Celebrated Fine India Steel Set Ready for Use. Below this is stamped “Diamond Edge Razor.” The black Buffalo handle has an inlaid mother of pearl escutcheon and an inlaid perimeter of silver wire. The number 1287 is the Henry T. Lummus inventory number. It is believed that the Lummus collection originally had approximately 1,500 examples of pre-20thC razors. Five hundred were donated to the Shelburne Museum in Vermont. I purchased five hundred pieces from the Estate. Five hundred more that were circulating for sale in the 1930’s have not shown up to my knowledge anywhere.

More Info / Bid Track Item

Straight Razor. Sheffield. Plain blade. Imitation ivory celluloid wrapped rope handle pattern. It is not in the book “Celluloid Handle Guide for Straight Razor Collectors Reflecting on Fifty Years of Handle Designs (1870-1920)” By Robert A. Doyle.

More Info / Bid Track Item

Straight Razor. “Henry Sears & Sons 1865.” Rare American maker. Mother of pearl represents the top of the line. Carved multi-panel pearl handle, 3 panels each side attached to shaped metal liners. Note damage to pile side pearl.

More Info / Bid Track Item

Straight Razor. Wade & Butcher Sheffield. This razor handle pattern is #53 in the book “Celluloid Handle Guide for Straight Razor Collectors Reflecting on Fifty Years of Handle Designs (1870-1920)” By Robert A. Doyle.

More Info / Bid Track Item

Straight Razor. Turner & Co. Suffolk Works Sheffield. C-1850. Very nice carved whalebone handle with heavy wedge blade. 

More Info / Bid Track Item

Straight Razor. R&M N.Y. Imitation tortoiseshell celluloid fancy handle having blade with big chips. This razor handle pattern is #152 in the book “Celluloid Handle Guide for Straight Razor Collectors Reflecting on Fifty Years of Handle Designs (1870-1920)” By Robert A. Doyle.

More Info / Bid Track Item

Straight Razor.  Black Demon. Imitation ivory celluloid handle with inlaid metal devil with pitchfork. It is not in the book “Celluloid Handle Guide for Straight Razor Collectors Reflecting on Fifty Years of Handle Designs (1870-1920)” By Robert A. Doyle. This is the only one of this pattern I have seen.

More Info / Bid Track Item

Straight Razor. Broomhead Cast Steel. 18thC - 1700’s American Revolutionary War Period wedge blade on black Buffalo horn handle having inlaid metal circles on both sides. Large iron pin covers. Very rare.

More Info / Bid Track Item

Straight Razor. Uncle Sam. Pile side of tang: “Germanic Cutl. Works Germany.” Imitation ivory celluloid raised pattern of nude women picking grapes. This razor handle pattern is #38 in the book “Celluloid Handle Guide for Straight Razor Collectors Reflecting on Fifty Years of Handle Designs (1870-1920)” By Robert A. Doyle.

More Info / Bid Track Item

Straight Razor. Illegible marks. C-1840’s. Carved whalebone handle with break that can be glued on pile side. Rare handle pattern.

More Info / Bid Track Item

Straight Razor. Frederick Reynolds Sheffield. C-1860’s. Etched blade. Whalebone handle.

More Info / Bid Track Item

Straight Razor. I. Barber. C-1824-35. The heavy wedge blade is stamped “Old English.” Black Buffalo horn handle. This razor was illustrated, bottom of page 8, in "Straight Razor Collecting, An Illustrated Price Guide," By Robert A. Doyle published in 1980."

More Info / Bid Track Item

Straight Razor. Colonial Razor Warranted Registered Germany. The blade is fully etched with a spread eagle and “The Improved Eagle Razor.” Black Celluloid handle.

More Info / Bid Track Item

Straight Razor. W. Greaves & Sons. C-1815-25. The heavy wedge blade is stamped across the top “I Am Good And Will Shave Well.

More Info / Bid Track Item

Straight Razor. Unmarked tang. C-1880. The blade is etched, “Celebrated Sheffield Ring.” Mother of pearl represents the top of the line. Carved multi-panel pearl handle, 2 panels each side attached to shaped metal liners.

More Info / Bid Track Item

Straight Razor. R. Hibberd Sheffield. C-1835-50. Massive wedge blade. Black Buffalo horn handle.

More Info / Bid Track Item

Straight Razor. Edw. Radcliffe. C-1820-30’s. Pressed horn handle with the Duke of Wellington’s bust, a cornucopia, figures and a spread early eagle. Pressed horn are early and hard to find.

More Info / Bid Track Item

Straight Razor. Sheffield Steel. The blade is etched in a banner “English Ground.”  Mother of pearl represents the top of the line. Carved multi-panel pearl handle, 2 panels each side attached to shaped metal liners.

More Info / Bid Track Item

Straight Razor. Pile side of tang - “G. Wostenholm & Son Sheffield, Eng.” The wedge blade is etched “Original and true pipe razor manufactured only by George Wostenholm & Son Washington Works, Sheffield.” Black horn handle front side, mottled horn on pile side.

More Info / Bid Track Item

Straight Razor. Manufactured By Smith & Hall Sheffield. C-1835-50.  Massive wedge blade has a patriotic American Eagle. Black Buffalo horn handle with crack at head pin.