Thread: Mappin & Compy.... Yes, Compy not Webb...yet

Purchased a pair of Mappin & Compy Ivory scaled razors today on ebay UK... Having owned several Mappin razors in the past I really was thrown by the "Compy" ( abbreviated Co./ Company) designation. Dug into the internet and found out that it pre-dates Mappin Webb and was the outcome of a falling out of the Mappin Brothers. Maybe some of you Gents knew this....but it was a new one on me... Excited to get this pair of "Compy" razors on this side of the Atlantic. I had not seen a tang stamp of Mappin & Compy til bidding on these. The razors were produced then between 1859 and 1864...after that....tang stamp would have been Mappin & Webb.

Here is the blurb I found that led me to the discovery...

Mappin & Co were a very short lived entity so we can date your object very precisely. John Newton Mappin and his 3 brothers inherited the company of their father Joseph Mappin and renamed it Mappin Brothers. John Newton Mappin fell out with his brothers and founded his own company, Mappin & Co. in 1859. He opened a shop at 77-78 Oxford Street in 1860. Mappin & Co lasted until 1864 when J N Mappin took his brother in law George Webb into partnership and the company became Mappin, Webb & Co. It became Mappin & Webb in 1868

Here is listing number of completed ebay UK auction with not so great pics... 130484369030