B.W.Middlebrooks Co. Chicago.......

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knife7knut
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B.W.Middlebrooks Co. Chicago.......

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Picked this up last week at an estate sale for $8. Not a name I had seen before. Nice bone handles.Unusual large disc affixed to one side of the pivot pin that looks original to the razor.
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Re: B.W.Middlebrooks Co. Chicago.......

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Looks like a German blade made for that company. Also probably remounted in different scales as the hinge pin looks like a nail with a home made washer on the back side. Repair probably illustrates that the owner loved that razor or couldn't afford a new one and fixed it to use with what he had available.

A company by that name also listed out of Barnesville, GA as buggy makers and was reported in bankruptcy in 1922.

Neat find.
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