W. A. F. Batty & Son
W. A. F. Batty was listed as a table knife manufacturer in Williams’s Manufacturers’ Directory, London and the Principal Market Towns of England (1864). The address was 196 Solly Street. The General Directory … of Sheffield (Wm. White, 1864) reveals William Batty, table knife manufacturer, at the same address. But curiously, the initial’s ‘W.A.F.’ are absent; nor do they appear in any other Sheffield source. Why Batty used them is a mystery, unles....
