Thread: The Gentleman's Set

New travel set :





From the luxury house "Pinteaux & Cie", Rue De Turbigo, Paris.









With a really cool travel badger in black horn.

Nice set, Thaeris.
I have a couple of questions about it. 1) why are the razors different sized? 2) what is the function of the tools with the hooks?

Originally Posted by Leatherstockiings

Nice set, Thaeris.
I have a couple of questions about it. 1) why are the razors different sized? 2) what is the function of the tools with the hooks?

Boot hooks, when men wore High top laced shoes.

The set went without razors, I add them along with the tools in bone.

The little one is a corn razor, and the big one is a Rodger.

Like pixelfixed said, there were boot hooks and clothes hooks (before zipper's time )

From a 1910 ads where we can see all the tools and the price :



The base salary at the time was 100Fr gold. It wasn't really cheap... (nowadays, new, it would be between 2400 and 3000$)

the last couples entered in my collection:

J. Gilbert & Sons Manufacturers - Sheffield
6/8" wedge, ivory, c.1840


Wilson - Hull
6/8" wedge, bone with silver piquet work c.1840-50

(unfortunately one of the blades in a moment of his long life, have been reduced in point)

and a solitary Thomas W.Ward & Co "Diamond Edge razor"
6/8" bellied hollow, sculpted ivory with silver piquet work, c.1840-50

(in The London Gazzette of 19/12/1854 results a Thomas Ward (Cutlery) at Brightmore-street, Sheffield)

Methinks those scales predate the Ward blade by at least a decade, but gorgeous nonetheless. Where did the boxes come from? They are lovely.

Originally Posted by ScienceGuy

...Where did the boxes come from? They are lovely.

Thank's. They are my restaurations , and the first two boxes are English, that of the Ward is French.

before and after



When the buyer asks it, I also realize the insides exactly shaped on the form of the razor (like the Ward) and dressed with a proper silk for the razor and his scales.

Altus is doing magical things with those boxes.

I'm now tracking old silk, trying to copycat him for mines (but I won't be a match for his wonderful work !).

Latest purchase, and probably the most beautiful set that'll enter my collection :

Wonder what all of those containers held? One of them looks to be the size of Sharptonn's Lemonhead container. Amazing set, part of me wants to cry out wretched excess and the other part wants to thank-you for posting a tonsorial illustration of the English aristocracy. I would like to see this gentleman's gun room, and like so many of us have said I would like to see how the set got from there to here. Thanks again for posting. Aside from the chips does this set look virtually unused to you?