A J Jordan 9" Bullnose Butcher Hand Forged Double Shear Steel 1871 1926 *Rehandled* Meat Breaking Lannier constantly experiments with new Size:No. 10 Lannier constantly experiments with new forms and materials We are excited to be the first North American retailer of this superior quality cookware line Andrew Jackson Jordan was an American from St Louis who set up a knife manufacturing business in Sheffield (the East India works) and imported knives to the USA made at the East India Works and on contract for A J Jordan by other Sheffield manufacturers large numbers of these were heated for days on end at high temperatures and the resulting bars were broken up (it would break or shear rather than bend once carbon added hence 'shear' steel) and forged welded into a larger mass