Thread: Marsh Brothers & Co. Ponds Works

Marsh Brothers & Co. Ponds Works Sheffield blade. Picked this up a few years ago, bout to polish her up. Don't know much about the company. Blade is 13/16. Sadly the nice light colored horn was in bad shape.

Cleaning up easier than expected....600 grit since post earlier. Cold weather = not a lot of haircuts = lots of polish time lol

Looks good!
Soak those scales in some neatsfoot oil

Nah they are broken chipped and bug eaten...ill probably try and find a similar replacement though.

Anyone got info on the maker and or time period?

Horn is super easy to work with and can be sometimes crazy cheap, at least I think so, to moderately priced.

Originally Posted by DennisBarberShop

Anyone got info on the maker and or time period?

Marsh Brothers and Co
of Ponds Steel Works, Sheffield

1654 Company established.

1907 Incorporated as a limited company.

1914 High speed steel and tool steel manufacturers.

1937 Steel and engineers small tools.

The VR crown on the razor denotes its was made between 1837-1901, its definately before 1891, my guess would be around 1870.

Awesome, what is the best way to purchase it? Do you buy a full horn then cut and flatten it with steam or something to that effect. Any good links to a page that gives good info would be great, gonna be my first full restore

Also, whats the best place to buy rivet hardware for the money, and time period rivets?

There is a sticky here http://straightrazorpalace.com/works...wers-here.html
in there it will give you links to micro fasteners web page to order washers and rod as well as temporary bolts to use for test fitting. There are several places to buy horn blanks. Most often I get them 2x6x 1/8. There are an Ebay store Abalone beads, Abalone shell items in Beads Plus More store on eBay! as well as http://www.masecraftsupply.com/servlet/StoreFront There are several ways of doming washers and stacking washers and fancy washers.

Nice work on the restore.