English Fish Servers Engraved Blade & Fork Silverplate

Description

JOSEPH HAYWOOD & COMPANY
Sheffield, England
English Fish Serving Pieces
Both are Silverplate w/
French (faux) Ivory Handles
Knife: 12" Overall, Blade: 6 3/4"
Fork: 9" Overall, Handle:  5"
Excellent Used Condition
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Joseph Haywood & Company
Joseph Haywood was born in Sheffield on 14 February 1823, the son of Joseph, a merchant, and his wife, Sarah.  Joseph Haywood Jun. was apprenticed to Robert Sorby & Co, merchant and edge tool manufacturer, Carver Street.  In the Census (1841), he was enumerated as a merchant’s clerk living in Eyre Street with Sarah Haywood (his widowed mother).  Joseph’s uncle was George Willis Hinchliffe.  Aged 21, Joseph became the ‘successor’ to Hinchliffe.  The latter’s business had become insolvent by 1850, but it appears that Haywood’s mother had acquired the assets and the mark.  Certainly, Haywood owned the name ‘Geo. W. Hinchliffe’.
Haywood was first listed in a directory in 1845 as a merchant and steel, file, edge-tool, saw, and cutlery manufacturer in Victoria Street.  The business moved to Livingstone Works, Holly Street, and then to Garden Street, from where a silver mark was registered in 1880.  The workshops were soon moved to Glamorgan Works, Little Pond Street.  Haywood traded as a ‘general merchant’ in cutlery, partly through a London office at No. 56 Holborn Viaduct.  Pocket, sportsman’s, and budding knives were staple lines, though the firm also made table cutlery and plated dessert ware.  It registered another silver mark in Sheffield in 1894.  Haywood’s corporate mark (besides ‘HINCHLIFFE’) was a kettle, which had been granted in 1860.  Haywood was once described as ‘a successful manufacturer and splendid man of business.