Smiths, Knowles, Creswick & Company
This was another Sheffield silver-plate firm, with a complex genealogy. In 1773, a silver mark (‘RM & Co’) was registered at Brinsworth Orchard by Samuel Roberts, John Elam, John Winter, Thomas Sattle [sic], John Eyre, and Nathaniel Smith. They apparently had links with Thomas Settle & Co. Nathaniel Smith, George Smith, and James Creswick next registered a silver mark (‘N.S & Co’) in 1780 as plate workers in Waingate. In the Sheffield directory (1787), Nathani....
