Thread: Wath do you think about it

The same as the title, I can not say anything

I like the shape of the spine, how it starts thick at the shoulder and tapers to thin at the tip, and the slight swayback is ascetically pleasing.

Could you type out the words it is hard to read on the screen from the photo?

It looks like
first line: GEORGE HAMMOND'S
second line: ?
third line: ?

damascus steel
DCN or DON place
its all
Thanks

Judging by the linked thread it is English from Sheffield.

http://straightrazorpalace.com/razor...more-info.html

Hammond, George (, razor manufacturer). Residing at Johnson Street, Sheffield in 1846 from Slaters 1846 Directory, Sheffield.

Love the scales on that last one!

Originally Posted by brooksie967

Love the scales on that last one!

Wath about the "damascus steel, is comun?, and Don Place where you think is in shefield?, interesting investigation, isn´t it ?

Originally Posted by Martin103

Hammond, George (, razor manufacturer). Residing at Johnson Street, Sheffield in 1846 from Slaters 1846 Directory, Sheffield.

George Hammond, son of Thomas Hammond was apprenticed to James Beal and freed in 1797 (History of the Cutler's Company of Sheffield).

Hammond moved around quite a bit. He also worked out of Nursery Street in 1837 (White's), 29 Wicker Street in 1833 (Pigot's), 59 Wicker Street in 1829 (Pigot's) and 78 Wicker in 1825 (Gell's)

The Don Place mark suggests the Johnson Street address (same as mine in the thread linked above) which goes back to at 1841 (Henry & Thomas Rodgers).

Are those your razors, Martin? The latter two are spectacular!

They are spectaculor indeed but not mine unfortunately!

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