Thread: As promised, site is up for Makers Marks

Man, that is great! I love it. What a great contribution to the community of straight razors & I also bookmarked it for future reference. I know this site will grow with more contributors. I have one for sure to contribute when I get the chance to so if I have one, I might have more. I need to register on imagur.com.

Originally Posted by engine46

Man, that is great! I love it. What a great contribution to the community of straight razors & I also bookmarked it for future reference. I know this site will grow with more contributors. I have one for sure to contribute when I get the chance to so if I have one, I might have more. I need to register on imagur.com.

Registration shouldn't be necessary if you don't want to. But dropbox works too, or really anything to get the pics transferred.

Lots of fun building a site. A lot like getting poked in the eye with a sharp stick. You did great and I am sure this is going to keep you busy for some time. I think it will be one great resource for sure. Thanks for for contributing to our hobby in such a big way :<0)

Fantastic resource.
Thank you.

Obviously you have a lot of marks to add and I assume you'll get a lot of contributions to that. BTW, I noticed the American razors are lacking marks such as Case, Genco, Torrey, and Lewis!

Originally Posted by Utopian

Obviously you have a lot of marks to add and I assume you'll get a lot of contributions to that. BTW, I noticed the American razors are lacking marks such as Case, Genco, Torrey, and Lewis!

Thanks. At this point I'm trying to limit it to earlier razors, I think there is already ample documentation of later factory-produced razors, but not a lot (at least consolidated) on early American razors.

Originally Posted by 10Pups

Lots of fun building a site. A lot like getting poked in the eye with a sharp stick. You did great and I am sure this is going to keep you busy for some time. I think it will be one great resource for sure. Thanks for for contributing to our hobby in such a big way :<0)

Speaking of starting a site......
Do you know a guy???
Who has a distinct and unique skill set??

Who knows a guy.????

Some stamp pics for your site...

Wade Butcher Anchor


Celebrated Feather Edge


I'll post the Diamond edge etc once they come back from Glen.

Bookmarking your site!

Hi,

maybe a long shot, but here are some references which maybe are useful for the early razors "LONDON" and "HAGUE"




Lindley Samuel was a razor maker in Atterclif (nearby Sheffield)
Staniforth, Parkin & Co were butcher knifes and butcher steel makers (sorry, nothing directly linked to razors)

Both references are found in the Gales and Martin Directory 1787

Actually, Staniforth, Parkin, and Co. made quite a wide variety of things, including razors. Their HAGUE / SHEMEL mark was listed under Pen and Pocket knives in general. They're listed again for making razors, but using the mark SHEMEL / PARKIN, and then once more for making table knives (with separate entries for silver plated and regular) with a set of crossed keys under a trident over PARKIN / SHEMEL.

Most likely, HAGUE was a mark owned by someone else in the company that was used prior to the 1787 directory.

The London mark is right on, though!