Thread: Shawcroft Restoration

I took this from William Greaves | The Shivering Beggar ... I hope he (Zak) dosnt mind ...............................Hawcroft was killed by a bull. Perhaps his umbrella9 startled them, but two bullocks being taken to the slaughterhouse knocked him down and one of them gored him in the head. He died two days later.
From J.T. Plummer’s 1885 ad in New York’s Great Industries:
William Hawcroft & Sons’ standard “Renown” razors are famed throughout the world as an article of pre-eminent excellence, being manufactured from the finest steel ever produced, and tempered by a secret process, imparting to the steel that degree of hardness, density and tenacity requisite to retain a perfect, fine and durable edge. Messrs. Hawcroft & Sons have been awarded the first prize medals of London and Paris, for excellence of quality of the “Renown” razors. Their steel erasers are also unexcelled.