Thread: D.C Halsted 9/8 FBU

Originally Posted by WW243

Tom,
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does not do much to advance the knowledge base.....but it does something.....I hope, in the right hands.

I do believe you are right, Bill (I've got my party-hat on, anyway! ) for this particular D. C. Halsted was an American. A New York City Directory for 1854 informs us that he was in hardware:



His first name is David, so I am supposing he is the same 'government officer' I found in my previous listing. Having a Govt. post, being in hardware and being a juror for the 1854 New York Exhibition for the cutlery panel just pile the evidence up more. That 1854 Exhibition was in response to the Great Exhibition of 1851 in London and a lot of erudite english men reported on it compiling 'Special Reports' for the Houses of Parliament, the reports being printed in London which is why it seems at first glance that Halsted was English.

It seems like Halsted started off in the firm of Ingoldsby, Boisseau & Co:



The reference is from a retrospective by Scoville, published 1868. From another 1841 City Directory we find this:



Which confirms the link between the law firm and hardware.

Regrettably I have to discard my previous reservation about 'Manufactured By' as the razor was most definitely not manufactured by Halsted (a clerk by profession) but was imported from Sheffield with this marking on the tang - an act which I find curiously heinous.

Regards,
Neil

Just to be clear....Neil, you meant to say 'most definitely not...'

Bill,

I most definitely did - or did I..?

Seriously, I have amended the post, the error being due to my failing eyesight, I suppose - I can not focus on anything at the moment and seem to leave out bits when I am typing or typing things twice without realising it - how bloody marvelous is that?!

Regards,
Neil

Originally Posted by Neil Miller

Bill,

I most definitely did - or did I..?

Seriously, I have amended the post, the error being due to my failing eyesight, I suppose - I can not focus on anything at the moment and seem to leave out bits when I am typing or typing things twice without realising it - how bloody marvelous is that?!

Regards,
Neil

Neil,
As long as you are able to saying something like "curiously heinous," I think you are sound. I too am noticing the ravages of time and mixing of various Dr.'s versions of better living through chemistry. We soldier on through the humiliation of inhabiting a rotting pillar of flesh knowing that we were once the Colossus of Rhodes!

Well, Gents. I suppose it is time to do the little SRP victory dance! You lead, Bill!

Originally Posted by WW243

Neil,
... We soldier on through the humiliation of inhabiting a rotting pillar of flesh knowing that we were once the Colossus of Rhodes!

I find "The Dandy of the Dardenelles" rather apt.

Regards,
Neil

Originally Posted by Neil Miller

I find "The Dandy of the Dardenelles" rather apt.

Regards,
Neil

Figures you'd go all Oxford/Cambridge on me......

What an amazing blade you've got there.
Cant give any background, but here's my widdle 6/8" It suffers from width envy for sure.