Sorry I didn't know where to look on the Forum for this info. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks
Sorry I didn't know where to look on the Forum for this info. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks
Is the stamping similar to this Butcher Bros "None Specified" 11/16 - Straight Razor Place Library ?
Bob
IIRC they are no relation to the W&B Butcher. But I could be wrong, I was wrong once before. Martin, Zak or manah could probably tell you for sure.
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BobH,
Here's a photo of the stamping. No meat cleaver.....
Attachment 233408
I cannot find a lot of information about them.
The only directory listing I can find is for George & James Butcher, in 1841. They were listed as 'Merchants & General Cutlery Manufacturers' on 7 Trinity Street.
In 1872, that address was being leased out. It was described as "Three workshops, with steam power, each with six windows, suitable for scissors makers and cutlers."
Other than that I can't turn up anything. Unfortunately it's very difficult to get information because the surname Butcher and the given names James and George are all very common in Sheffield.
Unless George & James persisted well beyond that initial directory listing, I think it's more likely your razor was made by someone else. To my eye that one (and the others I've seen) are likely to have been made in the 1880's at the earliest. Whoever made it was very definitely banking on the strength of William & Samuel Butcher, and almost certainly was at best distantly related.
Samuel's one son moved to America and made railroad tracks, and William had no sons.
