Thread: John Shepherd pressed horn 'Cossack'

Originally Posted by Neil Miller

It would be probably be marked 'kazak' if it was meant to be readable by Cossacks.

They fought in the Napoleonic wars, most notably the Russian Campaign of 1812 where Napoleon was trounced.

They played a part in the Crimean War (1853 - 56) and from England's point the war was really to stop russia expanding into countries like India.

I guess that cossacks (Ukrainian, Russian) were well-known by the english peoples in the early to mid 1800s, if not earlier, and that the scales do not indicate any particular 'export' model.

All we can tell from the 'Wolf' mark is that it was either a George Sheppard (circa 1780s), a Sheppard & Sons (circa 1797 and later), a John Sheppard (circa 1820s), George again (c 1825 - 1833) or a John Barber (c 1833 - 1839), who bought the mark. Of course, we know that the mark changed hands again, but this takes it a bit too far out of our range.

It does look like an early rather than a later blade, so we have three candidates for maker: without a name it cannot be assigned to any particular one.

Nice razor, though.

Regards,
Neil

Could Charles Shepherd, F1791, razor maker, also be an option?

Originally Posted by charlie48horlogerie

What a razor ! It must date from 1815/1820 celebrating the allies victory against France. The cossacks were of the highest importance in the defeat of the 1812's campaign !

The british gives the russian a lot of money in order to fight angainst the french (brits had the navy, but almost no army, the russian had so much human ressources...)

I was thinking around the same dates.
You got a smoking' deal there ScienceGuy!!!!!!