Richards of Sheffield Ltd
Richards was arguably the only twentieth-century Sheffield firm to make a fortune from what had been one of the cutlery industry’s staples – the manufacture of pocket knives. Significantly, the roots of the company lay not in Sheffield, but in that rival German cutlery centre of Solingen. In 1900, the brothers Heinrich and Johann Richartz had launched Gebruder Richartz & Soehne (Black & Punchard, 20191). They made pocket knives, scissors, and table cutlery, sporting a ‘....
