justken Report post Posted February 15, 2016 Looking for info on a #6 J English, Newerk, New Jersey head knife...All I've found so far is company was started in 1828 and was sold in 1856... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TinkerTailor Report post Posted February 15, 2016 Apparently Joseph English was affiliated with Huber in Philly before he moved to Newark NJ in 1837 I found this on page 318 of "Blade's Guide to Knives & Their Values" By Steve Shackleford via google. At this link i discovered that he made tools by himself until 1856 when he joined up with C.S.Osborne........ https://books.google.ca/books?id=Tc8wAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA227&dq=joseph+english+tools&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjDt82c6fjKAhUP0WMKHXxPCAIQ6AEINTAB#v=onepage&q=joseph%20english%20tools&f=false He started his tool company in Newark in 1826: https://books.google.ca/books?id=N0UWAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA601&dq=joseph+english+tools&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj8veip7PjKAhVN42MKHS66CRIQ6AEIOjAC#v=onepage&q=joseph%20english%20tools&f=false Here he is mentioned in an 1879 profile on Charles Osbourne, from this it sounds like osbourne may have bought the business and he retired. Makes sense if he had been making tools in Newark for 30 years and philadelphia before that, he would have been an old man. https://books.google.ca/books?id=jRA7AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA127&dq=joseph+english+tools&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjDt82c6fjKAhUP0WMKHXxPCAIQ6AEISTAF#v=onepage&q=joseph%20english%20tools&f=false Basically what i found is his company turned into osborne.... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
justken Report post Posted February 27, 2016 Thank you very much for the information,Sir!.... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TinkerTailor Report post Posted February 27, 2016 No prob. I like to do research, and i coincidentally was searching for info on Heinisch scissors, also from Newark in the same timeframe, and a few of the sources overlapped. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
