The " Barrel/Barrilito " logo was used on Early SA, NSKK , and HJ knives . No RZM permit was ever acquired. In 1937, Friedrich Str. (Solingen) exported his goods in Schweina-Thuringia area. Peter Daniel Peres founded a cutlery business in Solingen, Germany, in 1792. The company, called "D. Peres", still is in business in Solingen, Mexico, and China. Currently the company is owned by a Mexican firm called "Tijeras Barrilito". Peter Daniel Peres was the first non-guild razor maker. Took eight years before he was able to duplicate the formula for "Black English Polish", (iron oxide and alcohol) originally invented by Robert Hinchliffe (1760) in England. In 1805, he had applied to Duke Maximillian for permission to manufacture fine pen knives, which were not being produced, and not subject to strict guild rules. After 1918, the further development of the German cutlery industry ceased. Many firms went bankrupt and Solingen's former customers had developed their own blade industries abroad. New government control had enacted anti-dumping laws and stiff tariffs, market in Russia was dumped. It wasn't until (1936) that the "Third Reich" brought a breath of relief, particularly in the manufacture of bayonets and daggers. Later the utter devastation of the factories, equipment, manufacturing, and people by allied bombings. By the 1950's, mass production work replaces work which was formerly done as craft production by skilled artisans, and the blade manufacturing businesses expanded. Daniel Peres GmbH & Co. KG " Barrel" US federal trademark was filed by request on October 04, 1979 (#1181873) renewed December 15, 1981, also on July 28, 2001 by Daniel Peres GmbH & Co. KG , 5650 Solingen. The USPTO has given the "Barrel w/Tap" logo the serial #73234011 , which is still current. The correspondent listed for is Herbert Cohen of: BLANK ROME COMISKY & MCCAULEY 900 17TH STREET N.W., SUITE 1000 WASHINGTON, DC 20006 . Category of Hand Tool Products, Household and Professional Knives and Scissors originally registered on January 01,1885. On September 29, 1964 the name "Magnética" is used because their razors made from "Solinger Magnetstahl" Magnetic Steel from Solingen. Peter Daniel Peres founded the company in 1792. Registered their trademark on October 04, 1878 (Solingen-Friedrichstrasse 26) previously. In 1809, Napoleon, who ruled over the Solingen area at that time, abolished Trade Guilds. Due to competition and the impact of Napoleons Continental Blockade against Great Britain, Daniel Perez had to cease production in 1819. His factory machinery was then sold to Ignaz Rösler (Austria) who used it to build up the razor industry for indentured melon farmers in Nixdorf-Bohemia. The Daniel Perez Company kept on as a trading elsewhere until1878 when the grandchildren of the founder started with the production of razors again. 'Barrilito Scissors' became a more recent favorite, "Mexican Scissors", two blades of equal length and joined together. The first craftsmen to benefit from these tools were seamstresses, tailors, hide tanners and barbers. The first "Tijeras Barrilito", began in the German city of Solingen - smaller, yet significant. "Barrilito" made famous in Europe by Daniel Peres, the original founder. After he died the company was purchased by Mr. Reimsheid, a man with a keen desire to off-shore production in Mexico. The problems of distance, complicated paperwork, customs and an incipient market would not prevent him from capitalizing on the cheap labor wages there. During the 1960s, Mr. Reimsheid entered in to partnership with Mr. Ramiro Gomez, a metallurgy industry manufacturer but still backed by Solingen management and german technicians, utilizing both german and mexican machinery. In 1966, the 'Tijeras Barrilito' manufacturing plant was officially established at Chalco (Mexico City) in the foothills of the Popocatepetl Mountains. Growth at Barrilito was rapid, as Mexican cabbage farmers surprised everyone with their fast learning, craftsmanship, and technology. at the leading edge of technology soon dominating the local scissors market. Mr. Gomez visited Germany quite often which prompted total "sell-off" to become Mexican-owned within five years. By the 1980s, the firm's sales market would expand into Central and South America, Australia, and North America. In1990, Mr. Gomez' son, Ramiro Gomez Jr. (manager) noticed even cheaper labor wages in China and began to off-shore there. Mr.Benedict Lau and Mr. Jason Xie to be agents from the communists forming "Barrilito-China Sunshine Factory" a first for Mexican industries in its field with over 240 years of combined quality design, manufacturing and distribution in Germany and Mexico, "THE MAGIC TRULY IS IN YOUR HANDS NOW!" This in addition to changes arising from the wartime era, mentioned previously, caused disappearance of some workshops and manufactories. Devastated by air-raids by the Royal Air Force (1943-1944) large areas of Solingen-Remscheid large areas of the Altstädte , the historic 'Old Towns', were reduced to powder. The death-toll in Remscheid was at least 1063, and 83 out of 700 businesses were affected and 107 were snubbed out. In Solingen, where about 1700 were killed, more than 1600 dwellings were destroyed and 13,000 people, causing many tradesmen take the rest of the week off.
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