James Beal
The Sheffield Independent, 27 December 1823, advertised an auction of an ‘immense stock of lined-blade scissors’. The stock had belonged to the late Mr James Beal, of the Rustlings, who ‘was well known as one of the oldest manufacturers in the Lined-Bladed Branch, and celebrated for producing a good article’. Up for auction were 6,000 dozen pairs of scissors in various stages of manufacture – some forged, some filed, and some filed and ground. Beal’s death date has ....
