Vintage Straight Razors

[nikoknife48]

I few I’ve collected over the years.

 

[gadgetgeek]

Some nice pieces there.

 

[Ernie1980]

Here is a 7 day set I restored. They were originally in ivory but one set of scales was too damaged to save so I used ivory paper micarta on one. Can you spot it? Lol

 

[nikoknife48]

 

[Ernie1980]

Nope the one in the middle

 

[PocketKnifeJimmy]

Nice!

Here are a few I have in my eclectic collection of "interesting objects"...

 

[Substance]

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The centre one of the 3 verticals it has a different shape and ends

 

[Substance]

Straight razor shaving only here

the last pic I took of some of the restores an few for sale items,
none of my customs or my 20 odd keeper collection though in here lol

 

[eKretz]

Nope the one in the middle

Wasn't too hard to spot if you're familiar with older razors. Different shade of white than the 3 surrounding it - also its scales have more rounded ends than the others, which are left just a bit pointed. Looks good though, nice job.

 

[scdub]

I have two.

The first was owned by my great grandfather but it’s in very bad shape and I just keep it as a memento.

After that crazy “woke” Gillette commercial I started looking into straight razors (because I’m probably a toxic male I guess) and ended up with an old Japanese kamisori.

I’ve used it exclusively for shaving since ~early 2020.

Took a little getting used to but now I love it and it only takes about 4 minutes start-to-finish to shave my neck-beard.

 

[D-weaver]

Not going to bust open my cigar boxes right now, but I think I have about 100, including some oddballs or unusual stuff. There are periods of time where divine western razors left in old stock come on to yahoo japan (their ebay) and I've gotten things like yasuki razors or really good german razors that landed there and never got sold.

I shave day to day with one razor, though - a Fried Dennert 6/8 and use a "real" linen and a shell strop (not horween, though I did buy a shell from horween a few years ago and make a strop with it - the surface finish is better for shoes than a strop).

 

[Coyja]

Anyone have any idea when this was made and/or possible value?
Seems that the Tidioute Cutlery Co was only really in existence 1897-1902ish before bought out by Union, so thats my best guess but confirmation would be nice.

Edit: best response I've gotten so far (from a collector on FB) is that its most likely 1902-1916 from the tang stamp.
Have yet to find a pic of another one in this condition, though.