Percy Osborne began in the 1920s as a manufacturer of electro-plate cutlery, fish eaters, tea knives, children’s sets, jam spoons, butter and cake knives. The address was Ball Lane, Carver Street. Osborne was an exhibitor at the British Industries Fair (1929), where he offered the ‘cheapest price’. The firm became a private limited company in 1942 (capital £1,000), which specialised in silver fish eaters and carvers. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, the address remained Ball ....