Thread: Escher or Droescher?

Originally Posted by Martin103

S. R. D. stands for Severin R. Droescher born in Germany, emigrated to the US in 1881. The firm mainly imported razors and hones in New York city from 1891-1924.

Severin Robert Droescher was born in Hechingen Germany 1844 or 1866 (I found two different dates). After his imigration to the States he founded the SRD Company which exist 1891 - 1924 and had a prodution site for razors in Cranberry/ New Yersey. He had good relationships to some Solingen companies and imported razors from there. Also he did business with J.G. Escher&Son and imported thuringian razor hones.

An interesting side note: The town Hechingen is located in the old county Hohenzollern. The castle Hohenzollern is next to the town. So my estimate since a long time is, that the so called Hohenzollern Abziehstein (wich is clearly a thuringian waterhone) was made/labelled by the Droescher company and maybe provided through some members of the Droescher family in Hechingen (the family name Droescher is stilll present in Hechingen today). Up to now I have not found any proof for that.