Edward Pryor & Son Ltd
Mark makers were highly-skilled craftsmen, who produced the steel punches and dies for stamping makers’ names and marks into the steel blades and silver products. Perhaps the best known and enduring name in the trade was Edward Pryor & Son. It was launched in 1849, when George Pryor – a scissors grinder in Walkley – purchased the mark-making business of William White (Quality, February 1957). This enabled George’s son, Edward (who had been apprenticed to White), to start his own ....
