Charles S. Levick & Company
Advertisement from the Foreign Buyers Catalogue, 1895. Image courtesy of Geoff Tweedale.
Born in Sheffield in 1871, Charles Swift Levick was the son of George Levick, a steel traveller, and his wife, Anne. At the start of the 1890s, Charles partnered Joseph Westby in Pinfold Street/Trippet Lane. In 1892, they registered a patent for an improved champagne knife and cartridge extractor. However, in 1894 the partnership ended and Charles launched his own business at Holly Works, Holly Street. He sold most types of cutlery and in the Foreign Buyers’ Catalogue (1895) advertised table cutlery with ‘holdfast’ handles. He died in McKenzie Street on 29 May 1899, aged 27, and was buried in Fulwood.