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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

pre-1850s usually straight razors with extra short tails, called monkey tails,

Pretty sure those are "stub tails", monkey tails are long like that Tedalus and, most famously, the De Pew "Perfect Razor". Some French razors were even made with no tail at all.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yep. I'm a dope, remembered it wrong