Thread: Joseph Elliot stub tail restoration

Originally Posted by silverloaf

Oops! My apologies, I obviously spoke without any knowledge of the actual date the mark was granted and I made an assumption of which Joseph was granted freedom.

With the history of Elliot razors, it's really, really easy to go astray. It's super murky.

Luckily, Geoffrey Tweedale chased down a living descendant to sort out some of the family tree... But still couldn't figure out where John Elliot comes into things.

Here's an uncommonly marked Elliot:



The hammer denotes that it was made with cast steel and a hammer rather than poured into a mold. The mark was the culmination of a run of folks passing off iron goods as steel. In 1818, George III issued a decree about markings.

Some cutlers seem to have continued using the hammer for a while (George Johnson), but most used it briefly then went back to the usual, which dates this razor to 1818-1824(?)ish.