Thread: Crown & No.1 brass inlays - any info anyone?

Thanks Iceni all input helps
my other stub is I believed older in the 1700's as it is a Acier Fondu which made me think this was a newer also with it being in english as Silver Steel.
the box throws me off also, as it seams a lot newer but it is marked with Luna Mono 1 on the front which might just be a lucky match with the number??

I can't be 100% sure but I think the box is much later.

My Joseph Elliot came with a partial box that looks to be embossed and painted. That razor I suspect is 1850 ish.

It might be worth looking up the printing method used of the label. It looks to be the same style as my 1900-1930 Bismarck boxes. And from what I can tell those box labels are done with etched plate lithography via a rotary press. It puts the technology to do that style of printing at 1850 at the very earliest. Before 1850 and probably for 10-15 years after that date letterpress printing was the only way to print. I belive you can do multiple colours with a letter press, but they have to be done a colour at a time, and getting the colours in key would have been very hard. Letterpress would have also needed a plate made just for the black boarder white relief text. Litho rotary presses on the other hand would have no special requirement for that black boarder white relief text.

Wullie I don't think the Cypher is as easy as this crown is a kings crown, If you look into the history of the cypher kings and queens swap at random. I also don't think cyphers date as well as a coat of arms. With a coat of arms you have the royal seal as it were, A cypher is more like a royal signature.


http://canadiancrown.gc.ca/eng/13318.../1331831539101

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ca...United_Kingdom