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And there's yet another in the same highly beveled scales. It really looks like Joe didn't go far for scales!

The original thread was a long time ago!

I get them mostly through ebay, or online auctions. I've gotten some really cool stuff just by being friendly at the folks selling stuff.

Ah yeah! Yours turned up pretty high in the search list. I'd guess it was made toward the end of his run. The 'Warranted' part just ... sorta kinda feels like a later refinement.

Any idea what the...

A little bit of a necro-post here, but since this old thread is one of the ones that turned up when I was doing an image search on Hives razors, I thought this would be a good place to stick this.
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I'm actually better with Latin than French, but that doesn't mean I'm any good at Latin. :)

Mostly, I know profanities in other languages... But then, in Dutch my name is profane! :D

I really need to learn French. :)

I was really surprised to find it there!

Smith's Key seems to have been a set of engravings of old Sheffield tools intended to be used by dealers. IE, they could use Smiths' Key to find plates of...

The entire book is available here.

Unfortunately, the only copy that has any kind of information other than pictures is in the Sheffield library. There was a limited print run reproduction of that...

Hah. Well, my amazing brain wrinkles are slightly illusory. I'd dug up that information before I had to head out of the house for a while, then I posted when I could get a few minutes to spare. So it...

I'm away from my books and sources at the moment, so this is necessarily brief.

It's most likely William Hives, son of John, apprenticed in Stannington and freed in 1797. The blade dates to...