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Hygiene & Body Functions - Hair - Male - Dressing The Face
Hygiene & Body Functions - Hair - Male - Dressing The Face
Spine
Blade Edge
“Dip at Toe”
Curve of Blade
Straight Scales
(From "Old Sheffield Razors” by Lummus, Henry T.;" In "Antiques", Vol. 2. December, 1922. p. 262.)
Trade Card “Bailey & Youle. Cutlers from Sheffield”
Mid 18th Century
(Public Domain)
Richard Ash
Sheffield
There is No Mention of William Birks or William Birks and Son in “Gales & Martin Sheffield Directory” 1787
English Trade Card for William Birks, Razor Maker, Sheffield
c.1750
(The British Museum)
English Trade Card for William Birks, Razor Maker, Sheffield
c.1750
(The British Museum)
English Trade Card for John Brailsford, Cutler, Leicester Fields
c.1750
(The British Museum)
English Trade Card for John Brailsford, Cutler, Leicester Fields
c.1750
(Spitalfieldlife.com)
Btittain, Wilkinson & Brownell
Arundel Street, Sheffield
John Fox Used the *P Mark from 1737 - 1793. Samuel Norris Inherited the *P Mark of John Fox After 1793
For Some Reason John Lindley is Not Listed in Bailey’s Directory of 1781
William Lindley Does Not Appear in “Gales and Martin Sheffield Directory” 1787
Ann Rowland Does Not Appear in Either “Bailey’s Northern Directory” of 1781 or
“Gales & Martin Sheffield Directory” of 1787
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Acknowledgements
I am indebted to Neal Hurst and Justin Clement for providing me with digital
copies of Sketchley’s Sheffield Directory of 1774, Bailey’s Directory of 1781 and
“A DIRECTORY of Sheffield” Compile & Printed by Gales & Martin 1787.
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