Massart-goudri?
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Try searching, William Jackson and Company.
Jackson was a tool maker and cuttler, most famous for making the “Rio Grand“ Bowie knife that John Wilks booth brandished after shooting Abraham Lincoln.
Jackson’s trademark was a set-square, compass and Maltese Cross, 1851-1881.
The razor does appear to be well ground, nice find.
Jackson was a tool maker and cuttler, most famous for making the “Rio Grand“ Bowie knife that John Wilks booth brandished after shooting Abraham Lincoln.
Jackson’s trademark was a set-square, compass and Maltese Cross, 1851-1881.
The razor does appear to be well ground, nice find.
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Thank your for the info, going to look it up.
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Hello , how come there is a different name on it ? Was that made in order off the name?
Just a guess, but Massart Goudri could have had William Jackson company make straight razors with there name on them. Massart might have been a store of some kind that sold razors and such and they wanted to sell them with their own name on them.
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thanks for the explanation
It seems to say Massart-Gourdin which are French or Belgian names.
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thanks,yes that i have find out now
Name on a Knife Blade: Sharpening Links between Cutlery & Communities
View the history of knife manufacturers in the UK and see if your name was once on a knife blade. Part of the Hawley Collection @ Kelham Island museum.
www.hawleysheffieldknives.com
Back in the day it was not uncommon for a razor maker to stamp whatever the buyer wanted for a few of a run as a gross, (144 razors), they were in the wholesale business.
Many razor and knife makers made them under a number of brands or stamps and some rarely under their own brand, possibly why so few of the Jackson razor surface today.
Jackson was and American living in the UK, and had ties to the New York area, a Meca for razor/knife making in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s.
It looks like the stamp might be Massart-Gourdine, there is definitely an N and possibly an E.
If so, at about that time 1871, the Massachusetts College of Art and Design conceived the MassArt-Gourdine library.
It may have been something as simple as a commemoration razor made as gifts for patrons to the library.
Many razor and knife makers made them under a number of brands or stamps and some rarely under their own brand, possibly why so few of the Jackson razor surface today.
Jackson was and American living in the UK, and had ties to the New York area, a Meca for razor/knife making in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s.
It looks like the stamp might be Massart-Gourdine, there is definitely an N and possibly an E.
If so, at about that time 1871, the Massachusetts College of Art and Design conceived the MassArt-Gourdine library.
It may have been something as simple as a commemoration razor made as gifts for patrons to the library.
I think it is simpler. I read the name “Massart-Gourdin” (without the letter 'e' at the end).
I found this letterhead, which says that Massart-Gourdin was a cutlery factory in Gembloux, Belgium.
In the marked spot you read “Dispose de Rasoir a Ciseaux Anglais” which means that they offered English razors and scissors, which in the case of the razor shown above came from William Jackson & Co.
In the German Wikipedia it is mentioned, that Gembloux is a town, which is known as the place of origin of cutlery.
