At 12:03 25/07/97 -0700, Brent  wrote:

Big Snip

According to the info in "The Cutting Edge", the catalogue of an exhibition
of Sheffield tools at the Ruskin Gallery in Sheffield in 1992:

ELECTROBORACIC STEEL was used as a mark by (at least)  Wm Greaves and Son,
and by Thomas Turner

> 3. 3/4" square sided mortise chisel, maker JOHN BULL, ????,
>    SHEFFIELD. The mark includes an outline of a person,
>    presumably mister bull.

>From the same source,

"John Bull " was the trademark of Hearnshaw Brothers.

Their Mark seems to have been as follows:

JOHN  (tubby little man) BULL

       HEARNSHAW  BROS

             SHEFFIELD

HB were listed in the Sheffield Directory of 1868n as edge tool mfrs on
Sorby Street.  After various ups and then downs they were taken over by Thos
R Ellin of the Footprint Works, Holliscroft, about 1958.  There is a fair
bit more info in the book but I can't type as fast as Tom Bruce.

>
>   ?ELA??EH & SONS
>     SOL?V WORKS
>     SHEFFIELD
>

Nope, got me bluffed.

Not much, but its a start!

Regards,

Tony B