Mysterious French Point

I have a story...

I bought a few razors from different sellers from Ebay in the past month or so (aaah SRAD ) and I was cleaning up my empty boxes yesterday. I usually stack everything in a single pile and when it looks like Pisa tower, I clean it up... My methodology isn't very popular around here...

Anywho... Un-doing the boxes for recycling and making sure that I have a plastic pile, paper pile, etc. I picked-up a piece of paper, rolled really tight. It used to contain another razor that I bought, I pushed the razor out and never un-rolled it...

I unrolled it and surprise surprise... A blade, no scales... I'm happy, the blade as a bit of rust, I cleaned it (no, I didn't take any pictures before.) and it looks nice.

I'm unsure of the maker and on the other side there's a strange 'logo' next to the 746 stamped on the razor...

What I can read. GE??????R STOLL. ?OCHE-SOLINGEN. Other side. 746 AU0A or something. No idea what it means...

I estimate the blade to be 11/16 (I didn't measure it). It's also very light.
Any idea of what it is?

You are a lucky man! It is Gebrüder Stoll, Foche-Solingen, manufactured between 1900 and 1922, under brand name "Gallop". Enjoy!

Ah cool, thanks mate!

"you know you have rad when...."

mdunn said:

"you know you have rad when...."

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There's no such thing

Sputnik said:

You are a lucky man! It is Gebrüder Stoll, Foche-Solingen, manufactured between 1900 and 1922, under brand name "Gallop". Enjoy!

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wow. well done, good sir!

Luc, that looks a lot like my weyersberg cornetta french point. freshly polished and honed by lynn but i'm still debating whether to try it or sell it.

conteins said:

wow. well done, good sir!

Luc, that looks a lot like my weyersberg cornetta french point. freshly polished and honed by lynn but i'm still debating whether to try it or sell it.

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You should try it before you sell it...

Nice find Luc, I see you managed to take pictures after the surrounding laughter died down

Go up a few grits with the sandpaper, that thing's all scratchy.

ofelas said:

Nice find Luc, I see you managed to take pictures after the surrounding laughter died down

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Yes, I still need to work on it a bit. I regret not taking any pictures before I started. On the last one where the Spine of the French point is was covered by a huge, red, orange, alive, piece of rust. All nice and shiny now...

bluefoxicy said:

Go up a few grits with the sandpaper, that thing's all scratchy.

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Yup, it's a work in progress... I should hit the 1200 this week-end...