Thread: What are the top English Straight Razor Manufacturers?

Originally Posted by Voidmonster

The great bulk of all the production from those two companies went directly to America, moreso Wostenholm that W&B, but all the same, they were major exporters.

I was surprised when I found out that Butcher ..... IIRC .... was not even a razor maker. He was the NY based facilitator of Wade's importing into the USA. Anyway .... I know someone will correct me if I'm (shudder) wrong.

I go by what i like in a razor so for me most of mine are sheffield's and most of those are joseph rogers,i do have others it's just some look better to me than others but the best looking razor i've seen are the fenney tally ho's,i just can't find one for the right price before they're sold so i'm not buying another razor until i get one

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

I was surprised when I found out that Butcher ..... IIRC .... was not even a razor maker. He was the NY based facilitator of Wade's importing into the USA. Anyway .... I know someone will correct me if I'm (shudder) wrong.

It's the other way around. Robert Wade was the American agent for William and Samuel Butcher. But it's not at all clear that Wade was, himself, American. He produced razors of his own in Sheffield before there was a Wade & Butcher, and as Neil has pointed out, his wife continued producing razors after his death in the early 1820's. But it's also confusing because Samuel acted as the American agent after Robert Wade's death.

The entire lot of them produced razors.