Straight Razor Auction Ending 7/15

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Straight Razor. Warranted. C-1810-25. Wedge blade with rounded point. Mottled horn handle is inlaid with round metal circle decorations and has a beveled perimeter.

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Straight Razor. H. Boker & Co. Germany. Blade etched “Finest India Steel Extra Hollow Ground.” Black Buffalo horn handle is embossed in gold with fancy scroll work. This is an early Boker Razor.

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Straight Razor. Packwood. C-1810-20. Wedge blade has beveled top and squared point. Black Buffalo horn handle.

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Straight Razor. Frederick Reynolds Sheffield, England. C1870-90. Blade is etched with a patriotic spread American Eagle with a draped banner “E. Pluribus Unum.” The handle is picked bone to look like stag. It is very rare to find a straight razor that boasts both a fancy blade and fancy handle. Usually, the cutlery manufacturers provided one or the other. But, not both.

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Straight Razor. Warranted. C-1810-25. Wedge blade. Pressed mottled horn handle with images of a hunter on both sides and other motif.

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Straight Razor. Cut-A-Way. C-1850-70. The wedge blade is fully etched with scroll surrounding “I AM THE CUT FOR A CORNISH MAN.” (The Cornish people or Cornish (Cornish: Kernowyon) are an ethnic group native to, or associated with Cornwall and a recognised national minority in the United Kingdom, which can trace its roots to the ancient Britons who inhabited southern and central Great Britain before the Roman conquest.) I have never seen this etching on another razor. The Whalebone handle is decorated with the red dot code of Henry Lummus and bears his inventory number “1005.” Henry T. Lummus Collection assembled before 1920. Lummus wrote articles on straight Razor Collecting for "Antiques" magazine in the 1920's. The red dot pattern was some type of code that Henry applied to many of his straight razors. Although I bought his 500 piece collection from his Estate over 40 years ago, and tried to review all the designs to try and find what they had in common, I could not break the code.

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Straight Razor. Imperial Razor Warranted Registered Germany. The blade is etched “Imperial Safety” and two men on a bicycle built for two. The imitation ivory figural celluloid handle has a stork eating a fish.  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. It is very rare to find a straight razor that boasts both a fancy blade and fancy handle. Usually, the cutlery manufacturers provided one or the other. But, not both.

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Straight Razor. S. Leon’s Celebrated Sheffield. C-1815-25. Clear horn handle with inlaid mother of pearl escutcheon plate with metal perimeter. Henry Lummus and bears his inventory number “1788” or “788.” Henry T. Lummus Collection assembled before 1920. Lummus wrote articles on straight Razor Collecting for "Antiques" magazine in the 1920's. The red dot pattern was some type of code that Henry applied to many of his straight razors. Although I bought his 500 piece collection from his Estate over 40 years ago, and tried to review all the designs to try and find what they had in common, I could not break the code.

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Straight Razor. Hancock. C-1810-25. Wedge blade. Pressed mottled horn handle with fancy raised patterns. The front side has a portrait of George Washington and an American Eagle with thirteen stars above for the Colonies/States. Floral pattern on pile side.

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Straight Razor. George Savage & Sons Patent Tempered. C-1840. Massive wedge blade with fully etched Masonic symbols. Black Buffalo horn handle. Large iron pin covers around pins. This razor was illustrated, bottom of page 63, in "Straight Razor Collecting, An Illustrated Price Guide," By Robert A. Doyle published in 1980."

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Straight Razor. Simmons Hardware Co. St. Louis, MO. Blade is etched “A Beauty.” The imitation ivory figural celluloid handle has a raised pattern of the bust of a soldier surrounded in scroll on fronts, scroll pattern on pile side. This razor handle pattern is #78 in the book “Celluloid Handle Guide for Straight Razor Collectors Reflecting on Fifty Years of Handle Designs (1870-1920)” By Robert A. Doyle.

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Straight Razor. Patent Temper. C-1810-20. Pressed mottled horn handle with patriotic words “Independence” and “E. Pluribus Unum.” It looks like stars above an eagle but the handle has much wear.

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Straight Razor. Cosmo MFC. Co. Germany. The blade is etched “The Improved Eagle Razor” with a spread eagle with arrows in talons. Black celluloid handle.

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Straight Razor. Blade etched “Clearcut” Tang covers appear to be genuine ivory but damaged. The imitation ivory celluloid handle is fancy. This razor handle pattern is #138 in the book “Celluloid Handle Guide for Straight Razor Collectors Reflecting on Fifty Years of Handle Designs (1870-1920)” By Robert A. Doyle.

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Straight Razor. Manufactured By C. H. Sheehan. C-1870-90. The blade is etched “The Gentleman’s Hollow Ground Razor.” The black Buffalo handle has a pearl and metal inlaid escutcheon plate.

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Straight Razor. Bell. The imitation ivory celluloid handle has a raised scene of a nude woman. This razor handle pattern is #42 in the book “Celluloid Handle Guide for Straight Razor Collectors Reflecting on Fifty Years of Handle Designs (1870-1920)” By Robert A. Doyle.

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Straight Razor. W. Crown R. Allen’s Improved Razor. W(crown)R" dating the manufacturing date to between 1830-37 for King William of England.. Uniquely shaped wedge blade. Mother of pearl represents the top of the line. Carved multi-panel pearl handle, 3 panels each side attached to shaped metal liners. Fancy cast metal head end caps. Rarely will you find surviving examples of these early pearl handle. There is evidence of an early repair in the tang end of the front side. German silver elongated escutcheon plate.  Very rare.

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Straight Razor. H. Boker & Co. The hollow ground blade is fully etched with a scene of “American Line S.S. St. Louis.” (SS St. Louis, was a transatlantic passenger liner built by the William Cramp & Sons Building & Engine Company, Philadelphia and was launched on 12 November 1894; sponsored by Mrs. Grover Cleveland, wife of the President of the United States; and entered merchant service in 1895, under United States registry for the International Navigation Co., of New York City with her maiden voyage between New York and Southampton, England. She was acquired by the United States Navy during the Spanish–American War and commissioned under the name USS St. Louis in 1898, and again during World War I under the name USS Louisville (ID-1644) from 1918 to 1919.[Note 1] After she reverted to her original name in 1919, she burned in 1920 while undergoing a refit. She was scrapped in 1924 in Genoa.) This razor was illustrated, on page 66, in "Straight Razor Collecting, An Illustrated Price Guide," By Robert A. Doyle published in 1980." Black celluloid handle.

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Straight Razor. Manufactured By Wade & Butcher Sheffield. C-1860-80. Carved Whalebone handle with piece missing off tang end.

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Straight Razor. Set Ready For Use & Universally Approved. C-1825-35. Wedge blade with notched point is stamped “Manufactured By Wade & Butcher Sheffield. Black Buffalo horn handle is stamped “Celebrated American Razor.” Lummus inventory number of 1963 is at head end pile side of handle. Large brass pin covers.