Paris Justice
This unusually-named cutler was the son John Justiss (or Justice). The latter stamped his knives ‘PARIS’ – and then named his son Paris. Leader (1905-06)1 believed that this was ‘a unique instance’ of taking a name as a mark and then adopting a mark as a name. John had died by the time Paris was apprenticed to John Jervis, cutler, in 1738. He was granted his Freedom in 1744. He retained the ‘PARIS’ mark, surmounted by a Greek Cross.Paris Justice register....
