Advertisement for John Davenport, Rockingham Street, 'sole inventor of the patent lathe-turned circular saws'
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Title:Advertisement for John Davenport, Rockingham Street, 'sole inventor of the patent lathe-turned circular saws'
Location:Sheffield_City_Centre
Date Period:1800-1850
Notes:

John Davenport (1783-1853) was a saw maker at Rockingham Street. This advertisement is undated (but has 1834 in pencil on the cutting). A similar advertisement appeared in Robson's Birmingham and Sheffield Directory (1839).

Note the grinding wheels in the illustration.

See Geoffrey Tweedale, Directory of Sheffield Tool Manufacturers 1740-2018 (2018).

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