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$20.64 shipped; saw the price was too good to be true at $5 with a few days left to bid, so I figured what the heck, I'll bid $20, forgot about it, and got the notification a few days later that I was the new proud owner of my 3rd Electric Cutlery fir $16.50+shipping, and today she arrived in the mailbox in beautiful shape, all stamps in great condition, and with a less common handle design that I'm really digging...
(I'm a sucker for finding a good bargain)...








Pro - Great clean edge with no chips, (dull), no rust, no pitting, just basic wear and a bit of a nice patina. So all she'll need is a little basic TLC and some QT on the hone&strop and she'll be shave ready.

Con - it's not a Sherman Cutlery from Keyport, NJ, so as I've sworn not to shave until I get my hands on one, the beard of Zeus remains until another day...

All in all though I am super pleased as E.C. is one of my favorite brands being a Jersey boy at heart. I wasn't in the market for another one, and thought for sure this one was going to get bid up well out if my budget, but figured why not bid while it's low, and she fell in my lap, so I guess it was meant to be.
 
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Definitely turn of the century, No later then 1910...

Friedman & Lauterjung was an import firm in NYC that started making their own blades and used the "electric" trademark, opening up the Electric Cutlery Co. In Newark, NJ where they were in operation from 1890-1910, (and the "20th Century" could have been a marketing name used leading into the turn or immediately after, so idk for sure). After 1910 they moved to Walden, NY... That's the most i've been able to gather so far.
http://www.jbfchamplin.com/?page_id=56
 
Nice find, I love buying old razors from the bay and cleaning them up and adding them to my shaving rotation. It amazes me that the razors are sometimes over 100 years old (I have one pushing 200!!) and they still shave as well or better now than the day they were made! Just think of what has changed since they were made...
Here is one of my latest:

It's a dubl duck satinedge that I fitted with mahogany scales after polishing it to 2000 grit.

Post up some pictures after you finish with your new find!
 
Definitely going to be more pics to come, but it may be while;

Not in a real pressing rush to shave, and have what I need for basic shape ups, so until my quest for a Sherman Cutlery comes to an end, I'm in no hurry to finish a new razor at this time.
 
"Not in a real pressing rush to shave"

Really?!?!?!

I don't know if they are original, but I like those scales.
 
Yeah, scales are pretty cool, I actually often leave patina in my vintage Straights provided its no rust, this one falls in that category, so I'll probably just clean it up good and hone it, but leave the scales and patina as is.
 
On the OP razor, I can tell one scale is a dog looking at a dish, but the other..is..a dog-headed woman, fishing? or twirling something overhead? Her tail? The oriental influence is there, too,which is perfectly suitable for the period, and not just for this razor but a lot of things. I'd be interested to know what the deal is with the dog head woman, danged if I can figure it out.

Also, very nice razor as well, Ernie. :) Looks brand new.
 
Ernie and others , I've always heard that the razors are rotated never using one every day.Does anyone know a metallurgical reason for this ??? What happens while it 'rests' ?
 
The theory WAS that the deformed edge needed more than 24 hours to recover. To use it more frequently would cause the edge to be more brittle and so to degrade more quickly. This has been debunked by observation under high magnification. However, it remains a wonderful justification for enlarging one's razor arsenal!
 
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