Thread: More mystery sheffields

7/8 and 13/16.

Interesting! Looks like Alfred Field made those GB razors, but here's something else: W&B also put an anchor like that on a couple of their blades- old ones. There was just one on eBay with the anchor HERE and I own one. It is pictured below. The anchor must have some kind of link. Maybe W&B produced the razors for Alfred Field? We may never know.

Hm ...Very interesting.

I have conducted small research and for myself, I can explain an anchor + Wade & Butcher.
The company William Rogers Mfg Co has a similar anchor.

This company was in Hartford, Connecticut. Hartford is the birthplace of the electro-plating industry in America, as applied to table ware! Later was opened a factory on Asylum street, under the name of the Rogers Cutlery Company. As we know, in the middle of the 19th century W&B sent large quantities of straight razors, pocket knives and bowie knives to the USA. A New York office was run by Butchers’ business partner Robert Wade and they traded under the name Wade and Butcher. Plus both companies were engaged in release of the silver-plated goods. It is often possible to see them in one list. I do a conclusion of all that William Rogers Mfg Co and Wade & Butcher, probably! co-operated.

To explain an anchor and GB with a cross, I cannot yet.

Thanks for doing the research, Manah. I have a blade that says "Rogers Warranted" on the tang and blonde horn scales. I'd assumed it was an English blade, but maybe its from William Rogers.

...or maybe not

Most likely it is this Rogers.

Originally Posted by manah

I didn't see or hear something bad about Sheffield blades.
I would take the GB too. (Because I have a pair of American Razors).

Niiiiice! Very nice!

I found a razor today that has hunter & son on it along with a powder horn trade mark and sheffield but no england any ideas? cant find hunter & son antwhere.

There is no stamp "England", because the razor was made before Madrid Trade Accords (1891).
Michael Hunter & Son, 1884-1892, Talbot Works, Sheffield, England.

His razors are not so rare on the bay and it seems that he worked a lot with military supply (I remember at least 3 razors, during the last month, with military "numbering" on the scales or a "military trademark" etched on the blade).
[EDIT: I'm refering to Hunter & Son].