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08-24-2014, 06:00 PM #1
London souvenir: Southern & Richardson
Took a desperately needed vacation to London with my wife, luckily it didn't take much convincing to go down to the Portobello Road Market. It's basically a couple blocks of antique malls on one side of the street and temporary vendors on the other.
It's sized 6/8 - 13/16+ from heel to tip, barbers notch, rattler grind. I've found a little about the manufacturer via internet...
Goins says the name was in business from 1846-1975
Member OWDTOM from BritishBlades:
In 1833 they were on Edward Street when the firm was known as Wilson & Southern.
by 1840 they were on Solly Street and Wheeldon Works.
In 1847 Wilson retired and Samuel Richardson joined up with Francis Southern so the name changed to S&R.
In 1851 they moved to the Don Cutlery Works, Doncaster Street (on Shalesmoor).
The corporate mark of a birds nest with three eggs dates from c.1880.
In 1912 S.G. Richardson was joined by Harold Willey and S&R was registered as a Limited Liability Company so any knives stamped 'LTD' have to be after that date.
So this razor is anywhere from 1847-1850 as the name "Southern & Richardson" and Wheeldon Works location stamp imply. My only other question on this would be who or what J. Penton is. Retail shop, personalized razor, who knows?
Corrosion is thick (especially on the tail) but hasn't been deep thus far. I think the scales aren't original as they look like plastic with an extremely fine texture to them and the tip of the blade also lightly contacts the wedge when closing.
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