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That's great - it certainly clears (for me) the erroneous 'M. Hobson' attribution. It is clearly (again, for me) and 'H' and not an 'M' - Henry Hobson.

The other adds a little confusion though! ...

Yes Manah - I've seen it in Goins, my copy of which is amended by a HUGE amount of corrections - so many that I rarely rely on it for accurate information anymore, with the exception of the more...

No problem Joe - it's a pleasure! I would like a close-up of those tang stampings though, if possible, just to see the John Creswick a little more clearly and to see whether that is an M or an H on...

He may have done, but I have two troubles with him:

(a) His first name is Thomas, John is his middle name. Not that it's unusual for someone to use a middle name in preference, but I can't find...

Are you sure you have got the names correct? The reason I ask is because there was a John Creswick, cutler, but he died well before 1800 and that razor doesn't look old enough to me. There was...