Time to update the wiki page?
I'm thinking it must be a mis-stamp.
Pretty hard to accidentally stamp it with a tool that wouldn't used for five years in the future.
Not sure what you mean. They made five years worth of 40s style razors with date codes stamped on the bottom plate.
Now the switching of base plates or handles...that makes more sense.
I know it isn't quite clear in the pics, but it is a B3 stamped on the back of this 40s style. Am I missing something? They went V-Z, that was it right?
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Who has possession of this razor?
Thinking out loud.
It would be interesting to view a picture with the doors open and how the head and handle is mated.
The mirror like doors contrast greatly with the brassed and pitted baseplate like they've led different lives.
With all the pitting, that "B" could be a "Z"?
Who has possession of this razor?
Thinking out loud.
It would be interesting to view a picture with the doors open and how the head and handle is mated.
The mirror like doors contrast greatly with the brassed and pitted baseplate like they've led different lives.
With all the pitting, that "B" could be a "Z"?
If these are repurposed parts, someone really did a MacGyver number on it for sure.
Thanks for the follow up and great closeups btw.
If these are repurposed parts, someone really did a MacGyver number on it for sure.
That in itself makes it collectable.
How true, how true. That was the era I was born and raised in, I'm a Y-1. My small town was a manufacturing town with big name factories. Just about everyone one I knew had a shop out back of the house with a lathe and a contract. If something broke you either fixed it or knew someone that could.About that time in the US being a damn good machinist wasn't extremely rare, and was pretty well respected, too. Someone probably dinged up a razor, and either said, "Heck I can fix this" or maybe said, "George at work can fix this." So it came into the shop the next day, and went home as a custom work of art.
We've lost appreciation for craft labor's skill in the US these days.