Thread: What do I have here?

Originally Posted by Neil Miller

Yep Alex - thank goodness for good old Tweedale, or we wouldn't have much to repeat!

Regards,
Neil

Tweedale? Please ellaborate! Or is it Top Secret?
Thx

Originally Posted by Neil Miller

BTW his son bought Platts Bros Cutlery in Andover NY and had a concern in Clay Cutlery in the same city, with dear old dad as the agent!

Regards,
Neil

THANKS for curing my brain fart. Clay was the nephew.

YOU DA MAN!!!

Tweedale?

Geoffrey Tweedale, Professor of Business History.

Originally Posted by Wullie

IN addition to what Neil said, Andrew Jackson Jordan was quite and entrepreneur in the cutlery business. He bought out the bankrupt Platts Bros factory in Union, NY in 1912 and started producing knives there. Having a brain fart at the moment but after a short period of making knives under his name at the factory he started making knives under his nephew's name and at the moment I can not recall the nephew's name...

I think it was Clay E Jordan, Wullie. He died in St Luke's Hospital in 1945.

Regards, Neil

You beat me to the draw Wullie - damn those Texas gunslingers!

Regards,
Neil

Originally Posted by Wullie

THANKS for curing my brain fart. Clay was the nephew.

YOU DA MAN!!!

I read that up there. You caught it! Slow down and read! (Listen to ME!)
Wullie's gots greeeat powers of observation.........eventually!

Great info, Guys. So Professor Tweedale recorded a bunch about razor business. Could I suppose everything else as well? I feel somewhat aloof as I had not heard of him before.
He is on my list to check out!
Thanks to all, Tom

Originally Posted by Neil Miller

You beat me to the draw Wullie - damn those Texas gunslingers!

Regards,
Neil

If I'd bothered to read your post above my first one, we wouldn't be going through all this.....

Is all good.

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Great info, Guys. So Professor Tweedale recorded a bunch about razor business. Could I suppose everything else as well? I feel somewhat aloof as I had not heard of him before.
He is on my list to check out!
Thanks to all, Tom

He certainly has, Tom - he has a book about razors, a book about Sheffield knives, a book about the fall and rise of the Sheffield steel industry (quite a scholarly work) as well as many, many others. He also has a connection with Sheffield University, has visited with a lot of the old-time razor grinders and knife makers and made notes while they talked to him, thus preserving a piece of a rich tradition. And apart from all that - he's a nice, unassuming guy!

Regards,
Neil

in conclusion?. is AJ Jordan a higher end, or lower end razor?

Originally Posted by hairy

in conclusion?. is AJ Jordan a higher end, or lower end razor?

You dug up an 11 year old thread ............?

A lot of those posters on that thread are dead...and others are not here anymore...lol