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For your consideration, you are viewing a Vintage folding straight razor, also known as a Cutthroat Razor. The maker of this wonderful razor was Carl Friedrich Ern (1850-1924) and his family's business was originally founded in 1873. This razor has yellow bone celluloid scales embossed and carved featuring a Peacock Bird with a carbon steel hollow ground 3-inch blade
#CROWN & SWORD: Carl Friedrich Ern's family were razor-grinders (the Wupper grinders, after Wuppertal), Carl took over his father Nathaniel Ern's company located at Solingen-Wald and initially the family business honed razors for other firms (in 1860 his father Nathaniel Ern only ground and honed razors for Henckels), but soon after they began to make their own razors. Nathaniel taught his son Carl to do the job, Carl was a dazzling figure in the Solingen landscape. He brought the Solingen razor industry through to its heyday. He achieved this by dividing the manufacturing process into individual work steps. At the same time, he introduced the double hollow grinding machines. it was then possible to significantly enhance output efficiency and increase the pieces produced. This also eliminated the need for absolute grinding specialists, as now many of these activities could be performed by much cheaper temporary workers. Of course, the old razor grinders, who had to be well-paid, ran up a storm against this. Crown and Sword had 20 workers and seven masters in their workshop. Singing and talking were forbidden, and drinking was never allowed... The company moved to Wald (to Wittekulle), an outlying district of Solingen, in 1876. In 1893 they introduced the 'Hexe' machine to hollow-grind razors, said to be a benefit to all razor makers. They had a multitude of leading quality brands, including the Crown & Sword.
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- SHANK: "ERN" - "CROWN -EMBLEM-SWORD" over "MADE IN GERMANY". REVERSE: "ERN" - "SOLINGEN" over "1720"
#CUT THROAT RAZOR: The predecessors of the modern straight razors include bronze razors, produced in Ancient Egypt during the New Kingdom from 1569 to 1081 BC. They had cutting edges with fixed handles. The 1st steel-edged cutthroat razors were manufactured in Sheffield England in the late 1680s, to early 1690s. After their introduction in 1680, the straight cutthroat razors became the principal method of shaving for over two hundred years and remained in use up until the mid-20th century
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CONDITION: This German ERN Crown Sword Folding Cutthroat Razor is Vintage 1920s, Pre-Owned and it is in Good Condition. The composite handle has some damage, there is a chip missing at the top where the blade swing stud is, and there is also a clean crack in the middle section of the front embossed peacock scale. There is no damage to the rear scale. The blade is fixed firmly to the handle, the swing mechanism is working well and opens and closes easily, the 7.6 cm blade has an aged patina with scattered spot stains, it has no pitting and the edge is sharp and without dings. # Please note: The Photographs form part of the description; Super-sized photos can show the finer details and conditions.
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WEIGHT & MEASUREMENTS: The item is measured in both centimetres and inches. All measurements are approximate only.
- WEIGHT: 40 gm. approximately unpacked.
- LENGTH: OPEN 24.3 cm / 9.56" (from the tip of the blade to the end of the handle) CLOSED: 16.2 cm / 6.37"
- BLADE ONLY: 7.6 cm / 2.99" (not including the shank and handle) BLADE AND SHANK 14.2 cm / 5.59"
- WIDTH: 1.6 cm / 0.62" (at the widest part of the blade)
- DEPTH: 1 cm / 0.39" (at the widest section of the handle)
10/23
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