What Makes a Good, Traditional Barlow?

Gevonovich said:
That is what I was thinking but not certain. I will keep researching. I having fun doing it. Thanks, Jack!!!
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Nice Furness Gevo, I like the bolster stamp, looks like a smal D next to the E so I'm also thinking Edward Furness.
 
Here's a pic I found elsewhere of an EF & S Barlow with blade open.

 
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Augie said:
Interesting Jack, I'm seeing what I call the fish hooks on that blade also.
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Yes indeed Augie, I thought that was the top of some worn-away lettering, but you're right :thumbup:
 
Ecce gratum
et optatum
Ver reducit gaudia.
purpuratum
floret pratum.
Sol serenat omnia.
iamiam cedant tristia!
Aestas redit,
nunc recedit
Hiemis saevitia. :eek:;):D:D:D

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The 77 continues to impress. Such a joy to carry and use, nothing about it I would change.

Glowing in the sun on my lunch break.


 
Augie, Thanks and it really looks like an O to me but could be a D. I will take a closeup and blow it up. So if its an O , then it may be either Enoch Furness or Enos Furness (1836-1905). And if a D, then Edward. The England on the blade may be a clue. Thanks Charlie and Jack. Jack, I will check out the ad! So the jury is still out:D

Primble
Looks like the sun brightens everything, but the Summer is over and now the rage of Winter is to return:D;). Fantastic knife!!

Mark
Yours is gorgeous as well!!
 
Gevonovich said:
Augie, Thanks and it really looks like an O to me but could be a D. I will take a closeup and blow it up. So if its an O , then it may be either Enoch Furness or Enos Furness (1836-1905). And if a D, then Edward. The England on the blade may be a clue. Thanks Charlie and Jack. Jack, I will check out the ad! So the jury is still out:D
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The lettering on the blade of the knife I posted a pic of looks like 'EDWD' to me. Of Enos, Tweedale says nothing beyond the fact that he was one of several sons of Matthew and Eliza, who during the nineteenth century, combined spring cutlery manufacture with farming and occasionally running public houses. I'm struggling to find any actual historical record of an Enoch Furness :thumbup:
 
Jack Black said:
The lettering on the blade of the knife I posted a pic of looks like 'EDWD' to me. Of Enos, Tweedale says nothing beyond the fact that he was one of several sons of Matthew and Eliza, who during the nineteenth century, combined spring cutlery manufacture with farming and occasionally running public houses. I'm struggling to find any actual historical record of an Enoch Furness :thumbup:
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Thanks for that, Jack! I am still looking as well. It was a very interesting family to say the least!! I think the one you posted is EDWD as well, which makes me believe mine may be one of the other men;)
 
Gevonovich said:
Thanks for that, Jack! I am still looking as well. It was a very interesting family to say the least!!
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I suspect there was probably a lot of interesting families in those days my friend! :D There are some great online research resources available these days, including a great selection of old Sheffield trade directories, the records of all the apprenticeships, etc. I can find lots of Furness (and Furnace/Furniss) cutlers, but none of them is called Enoch. Levine's Guide lists Enoch Furness & Sons with dates of 1870-1915, but I cannot find that company listed in any of the records I have access to :(
 
Jack Black said:
I suspect there was probably a lot of interesting families in those days my friend! :D There are some great online research resources available these days, including a great selection of old Sheffield trade directories, the records of all the apprenticeships, etc. I can find lots of Furness (and Furnace/Furniss) cutlers, but none of them is called Enoch. Levine's Guide lists Enoch Furness & Sons with dates of 1870-1915, but I cannot find that company listed in any of the records I have access to :(
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I found two mentions of Enoch: Furnace Enoch, Son of Peter, Crookes,h.- looks like he was listed as a husbandman ( husbandman in England in the medieval and early modern period was a free tenant farmer or small landowner)

another under Furnis George...

p 105-106
https://app.box.com/s/9zcaz9hci7fu9m344sr0
 
I've spent most of this afternoon and evening stuck down the Enoch Furness rabbit-hole! Just come across a reference to the E.F. & S mark in The Standard Knife Collector's Guide Identification & Values (Second Edition) - Roy Ritchie & Ron Stewart, and it's attributed there to Enos Furness. Blade'sGuide also attributes E.F. & S to Enos Furness, with "ED F & S" attributed to Edward Furness.
 
Gevonovich said:
I found two mentions of Enoch: Furnace Enoch, Son of Peter, Crookes,h.- looks like he was listed as a husbandman ( husbandman in England in the medieval and early modern period was a free tenant farmer or small landowner)

another under Furnis George...

p 105-106
https://app.box.com/s/9zcaz9hci7fu9m344sr0
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At Crookesmoor (Crookes) and Walkley, rather than Stannington though :thumbup: It's a great document that isn't it? :)
 
Jack Black said:
I've spent most of this afternoon and evening stuck down the Enoch Furness rabbit-hole! Just come across a reference to the E.F. & S mark in The Standard Knife Collector's Guide Identification & Values (Second Edition) - Roy Ritchie & Ron Stewart, and it's attributed there to Enos Furness. Blade'sGuide also attributes E.F. & S to Enos Furness, with "ED F & S" attributed to Edward Furness.
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Wonderful work, Jack!! I love these rabbit holes:D
 
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