Straight Razor Auction Ending 3/5

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Straight razor. AKSARBEN GERMAN MAKE. Pile side of tang: J. M. Garrett Barber Supply Kansas City, MO. Fancy cast aluminum handle pattern with Art Nouveau woman and scroll raised on the front and KEEN KUTTER and scroll raised on back. Note: 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. This would have been the top of their line for this maker.

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Straight razor. BRIDGE CUTLERY CO. ST. LOUIS MO. Rare American maker having a ground blade etched “Bridge.” Fancy figural black celluloid handle pattern with Art Nouveau raised Nude woman design featured 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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Two Sterling Silver Handled straight razors. Both have monogrammed matching rounded handles. Manufactured by D. C. HALSTED SHEFFIELD and  WADE & BUTCHER SHEFFIELD, ENGLAND. Both have hollow ground brands and are stamped STERLING on back of handles. One is stamped F&B. Note: Foster & Bailey was a small quality American silversmith Company that operated in Providence, Rhode Island from 1878-1898. Sterling Silver handles are top of the line and rare.

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Straight razor. W. Greaves Sheaf Works. C-1840. Genuine Stag handle. Stag is very rarely found on straight razor handles. This early example has an inlaid German Silver escutcheon plate. If you have been buying straight razors in the first couple of sessions from my collection, you have had an opportunity to purchase a few already. In the fifty plus years of collecting, I kept all the stag I could find. They are now coming on the market for the first time in this Century.

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Straight razor. Wade & Butcher “For Barber’s Use.” Massive Blade with wood handle. Although this could be an original wood handle. In my opinion, the handle is a custom made replacement Folk Art handle utilizing all the original hardware from the original, which was most likely black Buffalo horn. These heavy, wide blades razors  were popular with the Irish immigrants of the mid 1800’s. Note: Replacement Folk Art wood handles have been witnessed on 19thC straight razor blades as a testament to the frugality of shavers. Often it was the “wedge” blade itself that caused the breakage if the blade was closed too far or the handle material was too fragile for the blade (ivory, tortoiseshell, pearl or thin horn scales). These wood handles were very well crafted, sometimes utilizing the original spacer and,or pins. For the past fifty years of collecting, I have not sold any of my Folk Art Handled Razors. However, they will be coming on the market now with the auction sale of my collection.

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Three fancy celluloid Handled straight razors all having the same pattern but different makers. Two are imitation irony and the third imitation tortoiseshell. This  design  is featured 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. Greaves. C-1810-20. An early Sheffield made razor having a very nicely Folk Art carved wood handle complete with beveled perimeter and original hardware. One of the nicest examples I have seen. Note: Replacement Folk Art wood handles have been witnessed on 19thC straight razor blades as a testament to the frugality of shavers. Often it was the “wedge” blade itself that caused the breakage if the blade was closed too far or the handle material was too fragile for the blade (ivory, tortoiseshell, pearl or thin horn scales). These wood handles were very well crafted, sometimes utilizing the original spacer and,or pins. For the past fifty years of collecting, I have not sold any of my Folk Art Handled Razors. However, they will be coming on the market now with the auction sale of my collection.

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Matched pair of Wade & Butcher Sterling Silver Handled straight razors. Very ornate and extremely rare. Sterling silver was the top of the line handle material for Cutlery firms in the late 18thC.

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Straight razor. “George Butler & Co. Trinity Works, Sheffield, England. Nicely etched blade with a bust of Shakespeare and the quote: “Keen as is this Razors blade Invisible.” “ Shakespeare’s Loves Labor Lost.” Black Buffalo horn handle.

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Straight razor. “Electric” made by Friedman & Lauterjung. Handle is Stag. If you have been buying straight razors in the first couple of sessions from my collection, you have had an opportunity to purchase a few already. In the fifty plus years of collecting, I kept all the stag I could find. They are now coming on the market for the first time in this Century.

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Straight razor. CAST STEEL WARRANTED. C-1815-20. Wedge blade stamped “W GREAVES & SONS. The black Buffalo horn handle is pressed SHEAF WORKS.

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Early American Made Straight razor. M & J.W. KING BEEKMAN ST NEW YORK. C-1850. Wedge blade and Buffalo horn handle.

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Straight razor. H. BOKER & CO. The blade is fully etched with a steamship “AMERICAN LINE S.S. ST. LOUIS.” Black celluloid handle.

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Straight razor. MANUFACTURED BY WADE & BUTCHER SHEFFIELD.  C-1840. The genuine Stag handle has an inlaid German Silver escutcheon plate. The heavy wedge blade is stamped “FINE INDIA STEEL RAZOR SET READY FOR USE.” Very rare.

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Straight razor. CHINESE on tang. Very ornate Sterling Silver handle. Hollow ground blade.

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Straight razor. W(crown)R" dating the manufacturing date to between 1830-37 for King William of England. WADE & BUTCHER. This is a rare wood Handled Razor from the Henry T. Lummus Collection with his inventory number “1473” carved in red on pile side by head pin. The number is an inventory number from the 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 razors. Two American made examples with genuine whalebone handles. E. C. Simmons Hardware “Keen Kutter and Torrey.

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Pair of GARLAND CUTLERY COMPANY GERMANY straight razors having fully etched blades with spread American eagles and “THE IMPROVED EAGLE RAZOR.”  Black celluloid handles.

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Pair of carved pearl handled J.A. HENKELS TWINWORKS SOLINGEN, GERMANY Straight Razors. Reverse of tangs marked with New York importers name GRAEF & SCHMIDT. Both matching handles comprised of six carved panels of mother of pearl attached to German silver shaped metal liners for support. Mother of pearl represents the top of the line for this maker. Hollow ground blades.

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Two fancy Sterling Silver Handled Razor strops stamped F&B. One has a faceted inset yellow stone in the pommel cap. Foster & Bailey was a small quality American silversmith Company that operated in Providence, Rhode Island from 1878-1898. Very rare.