T. Smallwood & Son
© Ken Hawley Collection Trust - K.3438
We believe this knife blade was made by Thomas Smallwood (1842-1930), who was from Lichfield, and a gunmaker. He moved to Sheffield and, in 1865, married Sarah Jane Hubbard. Her father, Charles, was a silversmith and in the 1880s Thomas and Charles were briefly partners. Later Smallwood & Co and then Smallwood & Son operated as a silversmith at Suffolk Road. The knife would have been made in the 1920s. Thomas Smallwood, 'one of the few remaining hand platers in Sheffield', died in 1930, aged 88 (Sheffield Independent, 15 January 1930). A Methodist, he was buried at Norton Cemetery.