At the Great Exhibition (1851), William Oliver, ‘manufacturer’, displayed:

Case of cutlery, consisting of forty pieces of miniature cutlery, from 3/8 of an inch to 4 inches:  the smallest pair will go through an ordinary tobacco pipe.  Silver pistol.  Handle table-knives, as manufactured in 1800, green ivory, round point; handle table-knives as manufactured in 1750.  Venison-carvers and steel, set in elephants’ tusks of miniature size.  Jones’s patent game-carvers, and steel, set in fawn’s feet, mounted in silver  (Great Exhibition Official Descriptive Catalogue, 1851, ii).

Identifying this individual is difficult: no cutlery manufacturer with that name was listed in the Sheffield directory (1851).  Possibly, it was William Oliver, who was listed as a clerk in that directory and a ‘merchant’s clerk’ in the Census.  He lived in New George Street.  Oliver had been born in about 1817 in Swinton, Yorkshire.  He later worked as a table knife manager, with his final residential address as White Villa, Artisan View, Heeley.  He died on 18 May 1890, aged 73, and was buried in an unconsecrated grave in the General Cemetery.