This maker of silver and plated tables knives was listed in 1787 at Eyre Street.  Its trade mark was ‘W. GREEN & CO’ and a picture of a pistol.  The same name and device had been registered at the Assay Office in 1784, as the first entry in its list of marks for plated goods (Assay Office, 1908¹).  William Green had as partners Robert Sporle and John Cooke (an iron merchant).   But by 1792, they had left.   In 1797, W. Green & Co continued to be listed at Eyre Street as a manufacturer of silver and plated hafted table knives.  In that year, William Green and Hammond Blake, cutlers, dissolved their partnership.  Since W. Green & Co disappeared after that date, this was probably the William Green.  Unfortunately, no personal details (such as his date of death) have been traced.   Another partnership making table knives – James and William Green – appeared later.  But it was dissolved in 1812 and, again, no information has been found on the principals.

^1. Sheffield Assay Office, Old Silver Platers and Their Marks (1908)