Mysterious old blade or confused new owner?

[badmg42]

First post so be gentle. My straight has drawn enough blood for one day.
I snagged a rather clean looking set of scales today, which come attached to a curious razor. It is marked only "Figaro" in an odd hexagon, rather than the toothed oval as described in German Tool and Blade Makers - Archivingindustry.com. Also "M. Deposee" which suggest French manufacture or import.
The seller said if was a "Sheffield blade" but I saw no such markings, so who knows.


I don't think this blade is valuable to anyone but me, but I love it, and I have spent many hours trying to identify this thing. If anyone has any knowledge about or owns one of these Id love to hear about it.

 

[mycarver]

Cannot help you in the least but can only say I agree with being enamoured with this razor . There is something captivating about it. Simple , clean ,, somehow deco?

 

[Legion]

Hello and welcome to B&B!

That razor looks vary similar to my French Hamon Fabricant razor, which is one of my all time favourite, go-to razors. I love it.

 

[Legion]

More info about mine, which from the looks of it, was made at the same time and place as yours.

French, made in Paris slightly after 1867 (The maker won a medal at the Grand Exhibition that year, and it is marked on the blade. They also won an award at the next exhibition, and that is not mentioned, so I put the date of manufacture between those two exhibitions).

The scales are genuine ivory, blade is quarter hollow. Please don't put a bulldog clip on your ivory scales again.

 

[badmg42]

Yeah, pretty dumb huh? Realized that.....after I took the pic.
Got away with it with no visible harm, fortunately.

 

[badmg42]

and thanks for the info!

 

[troy]

Welcome to the forum.
And beautiful razor!

 

[life2short1971]

First post so be gentle. My straight has drawn enough blood for one day.
I snagged a rather clean looking set of scales today, which come attached to a curious razor. It is marked only "Figaro" in an odd hexagon, rather than the toothed oval as described in German Tool and Blade Makers - Archivingindustry.com. Also "M. Deposee" which suggest French manufacture or import.
The seller said if was a "Sheffield blade" but I saw no such markings, so who knows.
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I don't think this blade is valuable to anyone but me, but I love it, and I have spent many hours trying to identify this thing. If anyone has any knowledge about or owns one of these Id love to hear about it.

I would say French blade with some very nice real ivory scales. Great score!