Musgrave & Company operated in the 1920s and 1930s in Eyre Street (No. 48 ‘back of’).  However, in the late 1920s it also had a Charles Street address and an agent in Darlington. It marketed ‘Firth Stainless’ table cutlery (sometimes sold in fancy canteens) with the trade mark ‘SILVER SEAL’.

The founder was Ernest Henry Musgrave (1872-1932), who had been born in Liverpool, one of seven children of Dyer Stead Musgrave and Elizabeth (nee Ingoe). The family moved to Sheffield around 1901 and Ernest Henry initially worked as the manager of Tate's Furniture Store at 88 Pinstone Street. He set up Musgrave & Co Sheffield around 1923.

It is understood that the agent in Darlington was not related to the Musgrave family but was a Maurice Moscovitz, of Jewish origin from Poland who anglicised his name to Musgrave.

Ernest Henry Musgrave, Barmouth Road, died on 27 April 1932, of throat cancer, aged 60.  He left £621.  The name Musgrave & Co was acquired around 1940 by Gee & Holmes, who probaby introduced the trade mark 'EMMENCO'.

Base text by Geoffrey Tweedale with additional information supplied by Robert Edward Musgrave, grandson of Ernest Henry.