Thread: Wath do you think about it

It has a frown, other than that just a razor like any other

Originally Posted by mainaman

It has a frown, other than that just a razor like any other

Maybe so, in the same sense that a Mini Cooper and a Bugatti are just cars...

Originally Posted by Neil Miller

George Hammond was born in 1801. IN the 1841 census he is recorded as a 'Razor Maker' living with his wife Mary in the Brightside district of Sheffield. The son (James) and daughter are not listed as living at the same address. In 1851 he and Mary were living in Stanley Street, Brightside Bierlow parish, but is recorded now as a 'Table Knife Manufacturer.' They have a lodger and a servant living with them.

Don Place is (or was - the area was demolished and extensively rebuilt in the 1970s I think) an area in Brightside/Attercliffe - the River Don flowed past at the bottom of the road. The area was extensively damaged in the Great Sheffield Flood of 1864.

The Wicker/Wicker Street and Nursery Road join each other, Stanley Street also joins Wicker Street but Don Place is quite some distance away. As Zak's dates for Nursery Street and Wicker Street encompass 1825 - 1837 and Stanley Street is around 1851, then it is not unreasonable (but not proven) to assume that Don Place was earlier - pre 1825.

Regards,
Neil

If only this were likely to be the last time I confused a Sheffield cutler with his father of the same name...

I'd long wondered about the Don Place stamp and had pretty much come to the conclusion that it was a *later* location. Interestingly, the scales on this Hammond razor appear to be nearly identical to my larger T. Ascher. For what little that's worth, since this Hammond also appears to have had some quality time on a street-grinder's wheel.