Gilbert Brothers
By 1839, James Gilbert (1808-1866) and William Gilbert (1810-1871) were manufacturers of razors and strops in Eyre Street. Apparently, they were the sons of Thomas (a cutler) and Ann. An advertisement in Drake’s Road Book of the Sheffield & Rotherham Railway (1840) gave their address as Eyre Street, corner of Charles Street, and offered for sale the ‘celebrated India steel elastic edge razor’. A London newspaper puffed Gilbert Bros’ razors:Without pretending to say they produce t....
