As the business became larger, he was followed by others of his family besides his wife of course who helped in many of the operations. Finally the family sold the factory in 1985 to the current owner, Mr. Gilles Reynewaeter, who has kept alive the same traditional methods of razor manufacture, that have always made the razors of this company famous. Thiers-Issard has sold its razors since the beginning of the company of course in France but also largely in Italy, England, Spain, and Germany and during long periods in North America.
Razors are one of the worlds earliest tools.
In fact we can find simialr formed tools in some of the Celtic burial places and other burial places of many old civilizations. These original hand razors were round or oval and usually in bronze or in stone. These tools changed very slowly until the 13th Century and then much faster changes occured in the 14th century until now and the definative version of the hand strop razor came about. English steel has been considered to the much the best quality steel to be used for razor manufacture and in fact this steel did much to make the razor the wonderful tool that it is today. This steel, especially in the 18th century, became something very important.