vintage straight razor alongside its original cardboard display box The worn-down box bears the stamping of the Washington Cutlery Co., an American manufacturer and distributor active during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The handle features a translucent yellow/amber color, a signature style heavily associated with vintage celluloid material or early plastics commonly used during that era. It is a traditional folding steel blade (often referred to as a "cut-throat" razor) that hinges on a pin anchor at one end of the scales. During the 1800s and early 1900s, cutlery companies like Washington Cutlery Co. regularly imported high-grade steel blanks from renowned industrial centers—most notably Solingen, Germany—and finished, branded, and packaged them for the American market. These razors were built to last lifetimes, requiring routine stropping on leather to maintain a razor-sharp edge.