Thread: W. Greaves & Sons

GREAVES, WILLIAM
Shefflield
1780-1816 ("Old Sheffield Razors" by Lummus. Antiques, December 1922 p.261-267)

~Richard

Originally Posted by Voidmonster

I'd never seen one with the half-swaged spine on only one side! I'm generally just a sucker for that style...!

Here is a Barlow. Yes...an experiment in Str8Shooter's Duracote.
Ornate front, nuthin on the back!

Thanks void, think itll be put to work after i finish taking a tiny nick out of a boker I was working on today at work between cuts. Need someone to donate (or sell ;-) ) me some burl strips for scales for the greaves, pretty sure thatll be the route ill be going.

Originally Posted by Geezer

GREAVES, WILLIAM
Shefflield
1780-1816 ("Old Sheffield Razors" by Lummus. Antiques, December 1922 p.261-267)

~Richard

Yes, but it says 'sons' ?

Oooo update me on the duracote, just handed over a shotgun today to my gunsmith friend to be duracoted, I can get him to do me one haha

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Here is a Barlow. Yes...an experiment in Str8Shooter's Duracote.
Ornate front, nuthin on the back!

Cool! The ornate front and plain pile-side almost makes it look like a microtome!

I too, am very interested in the Duracote experiment!

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Yes, but it says 'sons' ?

Yeah, Lummus thought that the '& Sons' mark only came into play around 1816, but he was definitely wrong. Poor guy didn't have Google Books! The "& Sons" mark goes back to 1801.