Show AEE ARE AMERICAN MADE WE manufacture MILLIONS OF RAZOR STROPS 11 russian leather strops are mad made of horsehide imitation one ones are made of cowhide hazop atones are fro pro feas lonal instruments razor strops are made in hundreds ot of varieties counting kinds qualities materials styles and manner ol 01 finish they are produced in this country to the number of millions annually and american razor strop are exported to all parts tarts of the world the very best of the swing strops now so extensively used aie made of russian leather strops of this kind with the very simplest sort of mount ings inca at one end to hang the strop up by and at the other end to bold hold it by cost from 1 to 2 each strops of imi tation russian leather are sold as cheaply as boc fine russian leather swing strops with silver mountings range in price flom 5 to 25 each after those of russian leather the beat best swing razor strops strop aie made of horsehide of which in tact fact a very large proportion of all swing strops are made horsehide Horse hida strops are produced in great variety genuine horsehide strops being old cold from to 12 each imitation horsehide strops made of cowhide are sold at var ous prices from 10 to each swing razor strops are made also of calfskin and of porpoise leather perhaps 5 ser der cent of the swing strops sold consist of the leather alone but the great majority of them of whatever kind grade or quality con of two parts the leather strop and a strop of corresponding dimensions of cotton or linen on cheap strops this part Is of cotton on the best strops of whatever kind it Is of the best irish linen woven in the form of a hose and thea then flattened into s rop form there Is a swing strop that Is re ver sible it the face of the leather is cut in use the strop attachments are such that the leather can readily be turned there Is also a swing strop that rolls up like a window shade into the attachment from which it swings on the wall hand strops the familiar two sided and four sided strops with a handle at one cue end are made in very great va nety including for example traveling strops one sort of which small la in size has a handle that unscrews un una crews ani an can be dropped inside a place made to receive it in fix the strop besides the hand s of solid con ruction st with two or four sides there are hand strops whose sides are corn com posed of leather strops drawn at either end over a supporting framework which can be tightened by turning up on the handles hand strops are sold at various prices ranging from to 1 4 baca a silver mounted hand strops run up to 25 each by no means every man mail that shaves himself and has a razor strop of some sort has also a razor hone or stone as a matter of ta fa not one man in a hundred perhaps not one in ili a thou sand has one there are men that hone their own razors using perhaps alstone atone that came down to them from their father or it might be from their grandfather and stones can be bought it one anta ants them that way in a silver box but as a rule when a man s razor needs honing he Is more likely to take them to the barber a so that the razor stone Is virtually a pro tess foss lonal implement used almost exclusively clu by the barbers of razor stones there are two gen eral era kinds almost all of which of both kinds are imported the water stones ae as they are called be because calLue they are used with water from germany and the oil stones used with oil and called belgian oil stones from belgium some barbers use one and some the other and some use both of course e the razor stone la is a very important part of the barbers barber a lit kit of t tools and stud he values a good stone highly and a good razor stone is rather a costly thing german water atones stones cost from to 2 each and belgium oil stones ac cording to the grit and quality from to 5 each these prices being tor for stones from 6 to 15 inches in length S 8 inch and 10 inch being the sizes mott commonly need used new york sun |