Mid to late victorian John C Cockhill Sheffield Straight Razor 3/4" and part Box

John C Cockhill - Mid to late Victorian cut throat razor, some evidence of pitting but still extremely sharp! 

Comes with half its box. The handle is marked '69' although I don't know why

John Creswick Cockhill was born in Sheffield on 15 February 1826.   By 1861, he was a razor manufacturer in Eldon Street, having apparently started his business in 1855.  He employed 21 workers.  In 1862, he was a razor and spring knife manufacturer at Beehive Works, Duke Street and Porter Street.  His corporate mark in the 1862 directory was ‘Beehive’, which was once the mark of John Hinchliffe.  His later trade mark was a dragon.  By 1868, Cockhill was a manufacturer of razors, pen, pocket, and sportsman’s knives in Charles Street.  In the 1870s, he moved to Brookhill, where he employed about fourteen workers (seven men, four boys, one woman and two girls).   He manufactured razors for the Army and Navy; for various Sheffield firms; and also traded with leading houses in Birmingham.  He lived in Broomspring Lane.  His wife, Elizabeth, had died on 5 February 1861, aged 32, and was buried in the General Cemetery.   Cockhill apparently remarried.  He retired in 1899, when he was living in Crookesmoor Road.  He died there on 8 February 1903, aged 76, leaving £6,461.  He was described as an ardent supporter of Sheffield MP, J. A. Roebuck; a member of the United Free Methodist Church; and on the committees of various working men’s clubs (Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 10 February 1903).  His tomb is in Norton Cemetery.

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