Joseph Brammer was a razor manufacturer, who lived and worked in Pye Bank. He was listed as a cutler and fine razor maker at that address after 1822. In 1830, he married Elizabeth Ainsley. He was listed as a razor manufacturer at Pye Bank until the early 1850s, though his name in directories apparently then disappeared. His trade mark was ‘PERSEPOLIS’. He died at 72 Pyebank on 21 February 1864, aged 71, and was buried in Burngreave Cemetery. His wife, Elizabeth, died in 1875, aged 70.