William Nicholson
William Nicholson was a ‘general dealer in all sorts of cutlery’. His enterprise was originally based in Sycamore Street and was listed in 1833. That remained Nicholson’s address until the early 1850s. At the Great Exhibition (1851), he displayed knives carved with profiles of the Royal Family; Wharncliffe, Norfolk, Congress, and American cotton knives; and ‘improved’ American hunting knives. He received an Honourable Mention from the Exhibition jurors. ....
