ER 1906

[Grassy]

Those old ER lather catchers rock. I will see if I can look it up. There is usually a time frame that runs for a few years where razors were similar. I call mine a 1907ish.

Thanks Fuzzy. If there are a few slight variations in a few years I think "ish" might be as close as it gets. Still it looks great anyway and will go well with the ER 1913ish

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I will leave the dating to Wchnu. I love the old lather catchers. Hope it arrives in A1 condition.

Thanks Jim, it looks like it would be tricky to date exactly.
I probably shouldn't have bought it with the way international postage is but it looked to good to miss, I hope it gets here ok.

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Just looked up your razor on Waits' Compendium, and found a few interesting tidbits that may help.  The first is that Waits' claims there were 6 different heads for the ER Lather Catcher ranging from 1904-1911....and while he shows a picture of your particular one -- the only one with the words "Inventors and Makers", he doesn't come out and say what year that phrase was used.   He does seem to say that a circa 1906 razor has Ever Ready (not hyphenated on trade mark) while Ever-Ready is hyphenated on blades.  I'm not the best at deciphering Mr. Waits' dating information, so perhaps someone will be able to help, either with another source or decrypting the Compendium.  Beautiful razor, sir (Grassy)....congrats!!!

That's great, thanks for looking that up. I really should get the Waits, though not complete it always seems a great source of info. I didn't notice the missing hyphen.
I was thinking it can be 1906 at the earliest because of the "American Razor Co" dating it beyond that seems would be tricky but interesting to try. "Inventors & Makers" is great thing to be able to call yourself, a shame they didnt keep that on thier razors.