Antique and Vintage shaving accessories

From time to time we list antique and vintage shaving accessories. These include shaving scuttles, shaving mugs and a variety of ancient straight razors.

The items on this page are not linked to our shopping cart and to purchase them you just send me an email quoting the stock number to m.carpenter519@btinternet.com If you are buying a bladed product of any kind you need to provide your date of birth and be over eighteen.

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This cut throat razor appears not to have been used. It was made for Asprey of Bond Street by John & William Ragg of Sheffield around 1880. It came with original unused stock original from William Ragg but the markings on it are as above. It features skilled hand file work down the back edge of the blade and maybe ivory grips. Not on the faces of the blade. It appears to have been part of a seven day set and has a day engraved on the back edge. Its overall length is nine inches and it comes gift boxed in a plain black gift box. This is not original to the item. Stock number Asprey 1. Price £75

A Wilkinson system razor. In hardly used condition. The case still contains the instructions and the strop. A complicated ornate device pristine but in a grubby box. Price £48

The Imperial safety razor is hand turned Amboyne burl wood. It comes from Russia and is Birch burl that was used in one of the Faberge eggs. Burl is a wood which has features and distinctive shapes and colours formed by stress undergone by the tree whilst growing. You can see this item by clicking on the logo below.

Magnificent flow blue shaving mug with sinuous art nouveau curves. No chips of blemishes. Height three and half inches. Stock number Shaving mug1. Price £58

Hand painted and gilded Satsuma Japanese made shaving mug. No chips or cracks and still displays the ornate gloss finish as the day it was painted. The decoration is of stylistic birds painted in the Japanese style and is the product of a master craftsman. A large piece height four and a quarter inches. Just stood in your bathroom it’s an item to be admired. Stock number Shaving mug 2. Price £55

The best sharpening stone for open razors is the Arkansas whetstone. It was traditionally used to produce a fine edge and used by surgeons and others for medical grade sharpening of surgical instruments. We stock the finest grade black Arkansas whetstone on our other web site https://www.typenet.com

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You can see our cufflink range on typenet.com including cufflinks made for the metalwork of Spitfires from the Battle of Britain.