Thread: The IXL PIPE Shop

Here's a new one I just picked up real ivory, did the pin test & everything. HInge pin is a bit sloppy and there's rust on the etching, hopefully I'll be able to save it.

"George Wostenholm & Sons", frameback.
More details about this razor.

Wostenholm in Wiki.

Here is my recent acquisition. I would definitely use some help to identify what the scales are made from. It feels like horn, polishing like horn but doesn’t looks like horn.

looks like horn to me.

The alternative is bakelite. You could test it on the back side of one scale (inside), trying to penetrate it with a thin metal pin: horn usually is softer. Under hot water, bakelite smells "different".. but this is not the right test for your nice scales. [I have a Robert Klaas and two W&B's razors with very similar scales: two are bakelite, one horn ].

I will pretend that this is horn

I hate flash. That's why I don't have one on my camera. Downside of it, it is difficult to create the same light if you do reshooting when you are not in studio. Here is other side of the razor, I thought you might want to see it.

Frome those light "scratches", I'd say that's horn. ..OK, now??

I agree with clavichord - horn.

One more Wostenholm.