William Fox
This fruit knife has a silver blade stamped ‘W F’. This presumably denotes William Fox, who registered these initials as a silver mark at Sheffield Assay Office in 1775. He worked at Westbar, which may link him with the family involved with Fox & Norris. William Fox was the son of Joshua Fox (who had been apprenticed to his father, another William). Joshua became a Freeman in 1723. It was said that in about 1750 Joshua became the first Sheffield manufacturer to open a direct trad....
