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  1. 03-11-2015, 07:53 PM #1
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    Cool John Milner & Co. (Sheffield) Ltd.

    John Milner & Co. (Sheffield) Ltd.


    It’s been a short while since I posted one up here so…I just finished restoring this really nice vintage John Milner. I have 2 Milners counting this one, but it's not a name you see that often. I do believe one also resides in "SHARPTOWN TEXAS" if I'm not mistaken?

    It’s been in one of my ‘To Do Boxes’ forever and a day, so I pulled it out along with a couple of others that I am working on. It’s finished with a polished Crocus finish and domed oversize brass washers and pins, a lead wedge, and it shaves like a dream…typical Sheffield steel smoothness.


    I believe this blade was a fairly early model (pre 1850 certainly), based on the blade profile, and the stamp says simply “JOHN MILNER – SHEFFIELD”, but… It’s really difficult to say who actually made it because according to Tweedale’s Directory there were quite a few John Milners active in the Sheffield area in the 1820’s and 1830’s. One in particular… John Milner & Co. (Sheffield) Ltd.… began his career as an apprentice before 1810 and was based in St. Thomas Street by 1845, and was most notably known as a spring-knife cutler. His son John Milner Jr. also launched a separate company in 1840. The trademark ‘INTRINSIC’ was granted to one of these Milners in 1848.

    Anyway…enjoy!

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    That turned out really nice well done you excellent restore.
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    Very nice job. Sweet looking razor.
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    Well done ,no.. it's very well done ! Lovely restore ! Kudos
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    Very well done I love the finishes you get with the crocus.
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    Very nice work, beautiful grind on this blade and as usual your finishing technique is flawless, Sharptown Texas? you dont say....
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    Wow, I love it! For me, clean and simple takes the cake every time. You nailed that, exactly.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tarkus View Post
    Very well done I love the finishes you get with the crocus.
    Thanks Daryl...it's appreciated!

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    Very nice work, beautiful grind on this blade and as usual your finishing technique is flawless, Sharptown Texas? you dont say....
    Thanks for the nice words as well Martin!

    BTW... ...'Sharptown' aka 'Sharptonville' LOL! My little play on words...I figured you and a couple of others would get it!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Wolfpack34 View Post

    BTW... ...'Sharptown' aka 'Sharptonville' LOL! My little play on words...I figured you and a couple of others would get it!
    Well, I don't get it! Whassat mean? I got's noooo ideeer?
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    I replied earlier and seem to have not hit the post reply button!
    Lovely job, Mike and, as Darl mentioned, the crocus finish is sweet! Are the scales ivory?

    I suppose the only way you would know I have one is to see my example posted a while back with the red wedge!
    Been meaning to do something about that!
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