David Greaves
The Hawley Collection has a small (27mm) copper disc struck with a cutler's mark, which would have been created when an apprentice applied to become a freeman of the Company of Cutlers'. We believe that the mark - a falchion above DG above an inverted heart (see image) - was the mark for David Greaves, admitted to Cutlers' Company on 25th September 1747.David Greaves was born in the Bradfield area around 1720, the son of David Greaves, husbandman, and his wife, Martha, nee Heaps. He was apprenticed to John Ducken....
