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What Tom said. :D

But more seriously, people still do this! There are innumerable consumer goods and tattoos that incorporate other languages as an exotic design element, and Hanzi bears the brunt...

Perfect! I can find one listing for them at that address in Doggett's New York City Directory for 1848-1849. Groesbeeck & Co, Importers, 30 Maiden Lane. They were at a different address in 1846, and...

Looks to be at best distantly related.

George Crookes' son was Henry.

Jonathan Crookes was the son of Marmaduke who was the son of another Jonathan (who originated the mark in the late 1700's)....

I would like to recommend that no one ever do this.

Oh, I take that back. I found Lower & Barrow listed in 1847 as receiving goods on the dock. What goods, I'm not sure.

http://theshiveringbeggar.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/FakeChinese.jpg

It looks like the Greaves and my G. Crookes were probably dies struck by someone copying the same source, but doing so...

Oh, you know.... That helps with figuring out the dates for these things!

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I did a bit of digging around.

From the Portsmouth Journal of Literature and Politics, June 26, 1841, there's this little 'narrative ad':
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I've got a G. Crookes and I've seen Joseph Rodgers, a Wostenholm or two, and I think also a Joseph Elliot. I'd be pretty surprised if there were any of the 'name brands' who didn't have fake Chinese...

Excellent! I'd never seen one of the fake Chinese razors made by Greaves!

I'd put the manufacture date to roughly 1837-1845.

(And thanks for linking back to my Greaves piece, Tom! I noticed a...