Name on a Knife Blade: Sharpening Links between Cutlery & Communities

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By mid-1840s, Samuel Russell (born c.1815) was manufacturing Britannia metal and German silver goods at Portland Works, 188 West Street. He advertised in Slater’s National & Commercial Directory of Ireland (Manchester & London, 1846). In about 1852, he joined E. J. Buxton to form Buxton & Russell. When that ended in 1860, he started another business at Eyre Street Works. The London Wholesale … Directory (1861) carried a full-page advertisement for Samuel’s new vent....

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