To complete this topic, he was/is from the South West I believe.
As Silly stated, he used to sell some absolute blinders which were made by a top batmaker in the UK.
But things went pear-shaped and it looks like he started to source any half decent bats (and probably a number of less-than half decent bats?) and sell them as Talisman bats towards the end of his stint on here.
He then disappeared letting a number of people down badly and nobody seems to be sure of his where-abouts.
And that is the history of the Talisman brand in a paragraph!
Locking this topic.