Edgar Allen & Company Ltd
Edgar Allen’s was a leading Sheffield steel and tool manufacturer. The Edgar Allen name and marks also appeared on straight razors and stainless cutlery (such as pocket knives). These products would have been factored by Allen’s and were probably marketed up to the 1930s.
The founder was William Edgar Allen (1837-1915), who was raised in London and was apparently the illegitimate son of Mary Ann née Rudelhoff. In 1858, he started work at Ibbotson Bros as a foreign correspondent. ....
