Joseph Tyzack & Son Ltd
This firm specialised in steel plasterers’ trowels and other builders’ tools, but it also marketed trade knives and gardening tools. The business was apparently started in 1837 by Joseph Tyzack (1813-1891), who dealt in gardeners’ tools and cutlery. He used a striking ‘3 LEG’ trademark – issued in 1847 and regranted in 1863 – which celebrated his sales of cutlery to the Isle of Man. His son, Thomas (1842-1923), inherited the business, which in 1884 moved to Meersbrook Wor....
