You have no idea how shocked I am that my brain was functioning that well. Between the moldy carpets and the miasma of Marsdens I'm wading through, everything is blurry!
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Neil, my friend, you have served another tumbler of delicious information. This is good stuff. Thanks.
Geezer - have a look at this thread, particularly post #8.
The mark belonged to Matthew Norris of Fox & Norris before it was passed onto Samuel.
I think you are thinking of the alloys formulated by Faraday and Stodart, made into razors by Stodart with a letter to indicate the alloying agent within a circle.
Regards,
Neil
The stub tail\old shavers section in my collection...finally pull them out for some shootings.
Sorry for the low quality, I took it using my phone.
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W. Greaves, before Greaves and Sons, around 1815 (before 1817),
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Joseph Elliot, around 1820,
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Holtzapffel, Charing Cross, not sure about the datation.
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Thaeris, you and OrSh have some great stuff there. I've never seen a Greaves that early. Or an Elliot. :tu
Thank you :)
I'm pretty happy to be the owner of those ones !
OrSh sure has nice razors, I especially like his Pradier and his Silver Steel encrusted, and the ones of the middle, Robert Warranted, P and the Bengall one. :hmmm:
Just got my first pressed horn razor. I couldn't identify the maker but I'm pretty sure that I've seen this mark in the past...
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Wright Cast steel
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