Edward Pinder
Pinder was a shell comb maker, when he married in Sheffield in 1836. An advertisement (1839) had Edward Pinder at Regent Street, as a manufacturer of table, pen, and pocket knives, razors and tortoiseshell combs (besides spear and dagger knives and plated dessert knives). The trade mark was an elephant, above the word ‘NONPAREIL’. This seems to have been the only occasion Pinder appeared in the trade press. Edward Pinder & Co was bankrupt in 1841. The trade mark proved more....
