The partnership was listed in 1849 at Pool Works in Burgess Street, making table, shoe, bread, butchers’, putty, palette, and pruning knives. The partners – both aged about 21 and living in Eyre Street – were Thomas Keeler and Charles Whitaker Saville. Birmingham-born Keeler was a table knife manufacturer; Saville was a Sheffield-born traveller. The partnership ended in 1851.
Keeler continued in Carver Street (with a house in Clarence Street). Meanwhile, Saville began ....