Thomas Law & Company
Thomas Law (1717-1775), apprenticed in 1730, was a Freeman in 1738, and became a silver plate and cutlery manufacturer. In 1749, he supplied the Company of Cutlers in its unprofitable venture into the silver box trade; and in 1751 obliged when the Company requested silver presentation knives and forks for the Secretary of War. Law was Master Cutler in 1753. In 1773, he registered one of the first Sheffield silver marks from workshops in Norfolk Street. In 1774, the firm’s cutlery mark was &lsquo....
