Clauss Cutlery Company opener. Clauss Cutlery Company Clauss Cutlery is a cutlery brand owned by the Acme United Corporation since 2004. It was founded as Elyria Shear Works in 1877 by John and Henrie Clauss in Elyria, Ohio. At one time the company was the largest manufacturer of scissors and shears in the world. The two brothers John and Henrie Clauss, of German origin, started Elyria Shear Works from a one-room building in Elyria, Ohio. Together with five employees, they began manufacturing scissors, shears, straight razors and serrated kitchen knives. In the early 1880s, with his shear business prospering, John Clauss planned a
Jonathan Messer in pre-production on the Todd Haynes film "Far from Heaven". Messer also received a Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust (Australia) and an Ian Potter Foundation Grant to pursue his MFA at the AFI. Messer is a graduate director from the National Institute of Dramatic Art, in Sydney. He has also worked in London at the BBC as an Assistant Director and Floor Assistant in Drama and Light Entertainment on the shows "Absolutely Fabulous", "Top of the Pops", "Blue Peter", and "The Hello Girls". He is currently at Edith Cowan University in Western Australia doing a degree. Messer is also a photographer,