Thread: Dunsford? Id help, please

This might be a stretch, but I'll give this a shot. There was a Jabez Dunsford listed as a cutler in a few places I turned up, all in Tiverton, Devon:

https://books.google.com/books?id=Hg...nsford&f=false

https://books.google.com/books?id=4Q...=jabez&f=false

A Jabez Dunceford is listed on a school register as age 11 from 1791-93, which would peg him as about the right age to be a cutler for when that razor was produced (based on shape alone I would think it was +/- c. 1800):

https://books.google.com/books?id=QC...nsford&f=false

Here's a listing for a Thomas Dunsford, cutler, also in Tiverton:

https://books.google.com/books?id=6n...cutler&f=false

There's a mention of different Dunsford cutlers in here, but I think the date is too late (mid-late 1800s):

https://books.google.com/books?id=o6...cutler&f=false


So, given all that, I would take a guess that this razor may be c. 1800 from Devon (south-west England). Further, that tail shape is very unusual to razors from Sheffield. It is often seen on razors of London origin. It could very well be a completely different Dunsford from a different region, but these are just the hastily-assembled first possibilities I came across.