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    Quote Originally Posted by Neil Miller View Post
    Yep Alex - thank goodness for good old Tweedale, or we wouldn't have much to repeat!

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    Tweedale? Please ellaborate! Or is it Top Secret?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Neil Miller View Post
    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!

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

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    Tweedale?

    Geoffrey Tweedale, Professor of Business History.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Wullie View Post
    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.

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

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    Quote Originally Posted by Wullie View Post
    THANKS for curing my brain fart. Clay was the nephew.

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    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
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    Quote Originally Posted by Neil Miller View Post
    You beat me to the draw Wullie - damn those Texas gunslingers!

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

    Is all good.
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    Quote Originally Posted by sharptonn View Post
    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!

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

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    Quote Originally Posted by hairy View Post
    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
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