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09-21-2020, 06:05 PM #1Junior Member
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Info Razor Nowill
Whi is it signed only Nowill?
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09-21-2020, 06:21 PM #2Senior Member
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This should help explain it STRAZORS.com - all about classic razors - John Nowill & Sons, Sheffield. .
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09-21-2020, 06:43 PM #3Junior Member
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I had already read this.
Originally Posted by BobH
But I have still doubt....
it could be something after 1960, will it have the same quality as the previous ones?Last edited by Dankan73; 09-21-2020 at 06:47 PM.
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09-21-2020, 07:14 PM #4Senior Member
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JOHN NOWILL & SONS,
Nowill Cutlery Works
Sheffield
1842 - 1920
JOHN NOWELL (NOWELL) & SONS
Nowell Cutlery Works, Scotland St., Sheffield
1842 - present
Depending on where you look I get two different dates.
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09-21-2020, 09:03 PM #5Senior Member
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I'm definitely no expert but if I had to guess that blade may have originally been a near wedge grind later reground to a hollow grind. That to me would make it an older blade. The scales are definitely not original so they add nothing to dating the razor. Although the article doesn't come out and directly say it, I doubt the use of Nowell with the trade mark D * carried on to later years. Your guess is as good as mine in this case. Originally Posted by Dankan73
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09-21-2020, 11:10 PM #6
I am working on one now
It had a lot of abuse
Some letters are hard to read
J. Nowill & Sons. It is an I and not an E
Sheffield. D
Established A? 17??
Not sure what the letter is after A
Definitely. 17 xx
There are crossed flags to the left of the icon
On the back are crossed flags, D and a star
On the blade are a Star over a D
Nowill &Sons
Sheffield
On the right crossed flagsIf you don't care where you are, you are not lost.
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09-22-2020, 12:08 AM #7Razor Vulture
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John Nowill used crossed keys. Not sure what to think of the OP's razor?
All seems wrong......
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09-22-2020, 12:43 AM #8
Yep, I was thinking a second Originally Posted by sharptonn
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hard to see the stamps after nowill int the OP's pictures but one thing I think is that stamp is sure crooked????
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09-22-2020, 01:55 AM #10Razor Vulture
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Top one seems crossed keys? May be it's a real old one before sons and has been reground with some Solingen scales put on. All I can think.
Not as refined in the tang stamp as I am used to seeing.
Let me look for some Nowill stamps...
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