Thread: G. Johnson & Co. Dart & Pipe Sheffield Razor 5/8"

G. Johnson & Co. Dart & Pipe Sheffield Razor 5/8"
lead wedge,late 19th-century.



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The Johnson marks were seven stars (granted 1835) and a pipe and dart device (granted 1698). In 1887, the pipe and dart – which George Johnson had purchased in 1842 for ￡35 from Thomas Linley – had been sold by his son Joseph to Arthur Lambert (1843- 1910). The latter was the son of a horn comb cutter. Arthur Lambert became a surgical instrument maker, who had earlier partnered Joseph Lee, but by 1881 was living next door to Joseph Johnson in Highfield Place.? This connection presumably led to Lambert trading as ‘George Johnson & Co’. In 1888, George Wostenholm & Son took Lambert to court, because of the alleged similarity of the pipe and dart to Wostenholm’s ‘pipe’ brand. Wostenholm’s lost (Sheffield Independent, 21 July 1888; 25 March 1889).