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Henry Looker's "trade card" advertising his work. Now I feel the need to "look" for a Looker.
British Museum Cutler/Razor Maker "Trade Card"
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Wow. Now that's a Looker!
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Trade Card for Packwood's Razor Strops
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A wonderful razormaker's card
Those are just too cool!
Thanks for sharing
Thanks for sharing
What size are these cards? Do we know?
I'm tempted to make myself one, just for laughs.
I'm tempted to make myself one, just for laughs.
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Another LOOKER.... I love the artwork on this one...
Great post. All these cards are interesting. Does this one say Likewife as one word? Wonder why it is bolded. Ir reads a lot like "Likewise". Looks like a very old word, I couldn't find much on the internet but this 16th Century Will uses the terms likewife and laftly as if the letter 's' got substituted with 'f' way back then.A wonderful razormaker's card
I was also curious if about fleames? "...the Best Fleames and Horse Scissors..."
A fleame is a knife which was used to bleed horses. The Japanese used them as well. I'm not sure what the medical benefit was.Great post. All these cards are interesting. Does this one say Likewife as one word? Wonder why it is bolded. Ir reads a lot like "Likewise". Looks like a very old word, I couldn't find much on the internet but this 16th Century Will uses the terms likewife and laftly as if the letter 's' got substituted with 'f' way back then.
I was also curious if about fleames? "...the Best Fleames and Horse Scissors..."
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There are better ones with horn or tortoise that I've actually seen in person... but here is an idea....
Fantastic. I've seen Packwood razors but never a Looker.
The hunt is on.
The hunt is on.
Far better than what you get today, superstars saying how good a razor is
Fleames were used in "modern" medicine up through the early 1800's or so.
We are talking about a time when "bleeding" a patient was a common practice. Fleames go arm in arm with leeches and such like. Do a google search on American colonial medicines or just medical practices from the 18th. century. You're bound to find some truely facinating and horrific stuff.
course now I'm wondering if we aught to start up restorers' trading cards.
I want the Ellis rookie card!!
Fleames were used in "modern" medicine up through the early 1800's or so.
We are talking about a time when "bleeding" a patient was a common practice. Fleames go arm in arm with leeches and such like. Do a google search on American colonial medicines or just medical practices from the 18th. century. You're bound to find some truely facinating and horrific stuff.
course now I'm wondering if we aught to start up restorers' trading cards.
I want the Ellis rookie card!!
I want a John C die-cut foil card.
+2. This has been an informative thread. ...And to think when I first glanced at that "trade card" I thought why are those church keys hanging up there, not understanding that was a Fleame or what it was used for.
I didn't dig deep enough to sign up for an Australian library account to really check this out, but looks like there may be another Packwood poster online here, some of wording is the same as posted here.
The interesting thing is that the United States was one of the last areas to use the long "s". In all of our revolutionary pamplets, the "s" was prominant, but it already was passe on the continent.
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