Has Anyone Seen One of These?

[Mr. Scruffy]

I found this photo on another forum and it does appear that my razor has had a "nose job".

 

[Nerdman]

I have not seen one before, but it looks awesome! I have a soft spot for framebacks! I only have 2 though

 

[jacksam]

A very rare razor today.

 

[azmark]

Makes you wonder why the alteration. That angle looks as straight as if it was cut from the factory. Looks pretty cool actually but maybe a little tough to get real close in some areas on the face.

 

[natchez]

What a classy razor! Enjoy it and many fine shaves to you.

You know I learn new things every day on this forum- wootz is my word for the day!

 

[NBT]

Just a post about one neat razor...and a great find Harry. To be honest, I think it looks "sharp" with the notch removed...obviously for collecting value I would assume it takes a bit away...but so what...bet it's a wonderful shaver...and certainly worth the restoration.
Cool find, thanks for sharing.

 

[SliceOfLife]

That razor isn't exceptionally rare in plain steel. I've seen about a half dozen on eBay in the past few months and I own one. That "Damascus" version seems pretty rare (and certainly handsome). I've seen it once before, and I think it was here a couple months back (maybe in scores?). The extremely verbose scales seem unique to the Damascus version (most of the plain version scales are simple black horn or else with some writing, but much less than that).

 

[Philadelph]

Your razor isn't actually Damascus steel as far as we've found. They etched that pattern and words onto the blade. Speculation has guessed that it was sort of a promotional thing to make it look like a fancier model razor. The toe also has definitely been ground down. It was most likely cracked or broken off and then smoothed out to the shape that it's in today. Those razors aren't all that rare really, but yes, somewhat uncommon. Yes, it's a Wostenholm. IXL was a trademark of theirs.