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Oh, she definitely wasn't. She died January 22nd, 1901.

I assume the date is from a dedication on the box?



Unfortunately, even such similar design features are no guarantee of who made it....

I'm really glad it's helpful!

Unfortunately, I might have to revise that... Today I found a picture of a machete from 1816 with a crown and GR stamp on it. I still don't know what to make it it.
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I hadn't intended to be quite so subtle about it. :)

It's here, and it hasn't been updated in a long time. I've got a wide range of stuff in various states of cooked, I just need to find the time...

I'm slowly working on it. The current plan is to visit Sheffield later this year and take lots and lots of pictures and do lots and lots of research. :)

I'm sorry I missed your earlier post about it, or I would've found this information for you sooner!

I'm pretty confident it's Hilliard, since there were no other people in Sheffield directories...

That's a tough one! The part at the top looks like the cutler's corporate mark, which appears to be Y <something> Cross symbol.

The name looks to me like R. HI????D'S. Thankfully, that's all I...

I honed it, but have otherwise done nothing else. It's a favorite shaver despite the toll of ages!



Hmm. Do you have a link to that? I don't think it was. I did get an Allison from eBay...

Absolutely! I'll probably get impatient and hone it before I fix the scales though. If at all possible I'm going to replace the missing pins in the design as well as the larger 'button-like' shield.

http://theshiveringbeggar.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/IMG_7928.jpg

Thanks to this thread, I now know that I've got a museum-quality specimen here. In fact this one is in better condition than...