Kropp Manufacturing Company Ltd
This ‘company’ was listed in the 1920s in Sheffield, as a razor manufacturer in Athol Road, Norton Hammer. However, Kropp was already a well-known name in razors. It was not a company, but a trade mark, which was owned by a London hairdressers’ sundriesman, Osborne, Garrett & Co Ltd. Kropp was apparently ‘founded’ in about 1890, when the first advertisements for Kropp razors appeared in the London press. The razors were stamped ‘KROPP’, with ‘Real Ge....
