Weird straight info... why did I get this?

FrenchBlade

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What the F*** did I get of eBay last night?

Ok, just to be clear, I saw a few japanese straights, they were all at crazy prices (same seller) except this one.
So I put in a really low bid, and won it... first time I've seen a japanese straight like this.

Any info, even if you tell me it's crap, let me know! (hope it's not!)

"Japanese razor,NIHON KAMISORI ,SHOWA"
6 inches.(L)
The condition of the blade is good.
It has the stamp of "Specially-made SHOWA".

these are the ebay pictures:



 
I think I saw a post somewhere about one of these, and the conclusion was that it was possibly a blade for "medical" shaving - for shaving patients before operations.

Ian
 
It´s a japanese frameback. It´s prob rather heavy (the back should be solid), japanese for barbers use razors have kind of the same design. One I´ll get my hands on one of these days. Normaly they have western scales though, but I think Ian can be right and it´s a special hospital design :?

Edited: Kamisori = japanese for razor, maybe straight razor and I think Nihon also is some kind of generic name. Shova is prob the makers name.
 
I just update this post for future reference, as it's now with Neil.
Our mail conversation:



So it might just be a normal one, with a different shape

Max
 
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