Frederick Reynolds is a Sheffield maker whose biography is unusually well documented, and whose dating evidence is unusually hard to use. The workshops are known by address and year, but the address is almost never stamped on the razor, so in practice the window rests on the name and on the era markers of the blade.
The firm dates itself to 1830 in its own advertising, and the workshop record runs from Sims Croft by 1841 to School Croft by 1851, where fifteen men were employed.
The later workshops are Gell Street around 1860 and Monmouth Lane into the 1870s, which closes the documented Sheffield period.
1 Frederick Reynolds models are catalogued with their production years, specs and safety notes.
Browse the models →Because the evidence that dates him is a workshop address that is not stamped on the razor. The firm advertised itself from 1830, and the workshop record runs to the 1870s, so the honest answer is that window plus the blade era markers.
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