Thread: Looking for info on these please

Finished restoration and edges on jnat.
Ready for a nice shave ��

Nice job. A Beautiful set.

Yeah, I agree on a beautiful set, Barrington-Your best bet for info. on those is probably Voidmonster/Zac, who is a walking encyclopedia on the old British blades.

Interesting scale materials. Did you happen to order from these guys in the UK? https://www.rothkoandfrost.com/mater...lic-sheet-p711
I got some sheets of their pearloid material over the summer, and it is just uniquely beautiful to me. I'll be dropping a blade into it before too much time passes. I haven't seen anything similar on this side of the pond-they have some incredible designs. Let us know what you find out.

These were almost certainly not made by any of the Sheffield Johns of Brown. There were at least three in various branches of the cutlery trade.

However, I'm finding it very difficult to turn up any records for this particular Mr. Brown. All I can find is references to a John Brown & Sons in Elizabeth Bennion's 'Antique Dental Instruments'.

There is a John Brown listed in the 1860 census as a merchant {illegible}, which might be the right man, and which also means the blades were likely made in Sheffield by ... someone. Really though, this is an excellently obscure one! A real treasure!