George Wish was born in Lincoln in 1846, the son of Richard, a bookbinder and bookseller, and his wife, Eliza. The latter was the sister of silversmith George Cutts.  By 1861, George Wish was living at Suffolk Road, Sheffield, with the Cutts’ family. Wish was trained as an electro-plate worker and then became Cutts’ traveller in Europe and India.  In the 1870s, Wish launched his own partnership with William Henry Sampson, but this was dissolved in 1877.  In the following year, Wish registered a silver mark under his own name at Denmark Works, Norfolk Lane.  Wish prospered.  By 1881, he lived in Wostenholm Road and employed a dozen men and four boys in the manufacture of electro-plate products.  Between 1886 and 1934, Denmark Works was located in Burgess Street.  Wish registered marks in London, where by the 1890s he had a showroom at Hatton Garden.  Wish’s son, George, apparently joined the business, but he died on 14 April 1903 (aged 25), and was buried in the General Cemetery.  In 1909, the firm became a limited company.  George Wish Sen. died on 4 September 1928, aged 82, and was buried in the same cemetery as his son. He left £46,482. The business did not long survive his passing.