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I think you meant "unequivocally 1820s" there!

Despite a prolonged search I cannot find any GR-stamped George III razors - plenty of razors from that era (eg a Samuel Last 7-day set), but none of...

Thanks Tom!

The razor could be either from the reign of:

George III - reigned from 1760 to 1820
George IV - reigned from 1820 to 1830

However, Faraday and Stodart's work led to a paper in...

Tom - Hallam certainly is a surname! Records from 1780 - 1820 throw up 1,694 people with the surname Hallam in the Yorkshire area alone. There were probably many more, but the census returns for...

E. Rhodes was Ebenezer Rhodes, born 1762 in Rotherham. He was apprenticed to a scissor-maker for seven years (the usual period), then took on a partner David Champion, scissor grinder, and began to...