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I believe it is short for 'Johan Engström', but you are correct about the anglicizing.

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"Jon" is a common name in Swedish. The landowner or the priest would have been named Johannes but the farm-worker would have been Jon (higly simplyfied but anyways).

That's a biographical account of "all renowned Swedish men and women"! John Engström could probably be found in there but perhaps not this Jonn Ankstrom we have run into now...

You'll see that this will turn into quite a valuable razor in the end. Like one of those misprinted stamps that sell for fortunes on auctions! ;)

Yes, hvarjeblad could be Varje Blad as you say. But I just can't imagine anyone making a spelling mistake like that back then. They would have known that was two separate words although there was no...

Thought you might be interested in what the etching on the blade says.

In the middle (easy one I suppose): Finest quality Swedish steel, Eskilstuna

To the left: Would be spelled like...

Eskelstuna might sound odd today. It's definitely not an official variant for spelling the name of the place. Unfortunately I live too far away to know how the locals actually pronounce it over...