Originally Posted by
thebigspendur
After H&R went belly up in the 1970s AG Russell bought the company and continued making them with the same people at the same factory and these had the bertrum markings. Eventually his connection with the company stopped probably in the late 70s and they closed and everything was sold off. Klass bought the name and continued making them in his shop with his workers. After that Frost Cutlery bought the name and that's when things started to really go downhill. I'm not sure who owns it now but its a H&R by name only.