Museums Sheffield has a pen knife by this firm, which has die-stamped horn scales showing Napoleon being hung by a Russian bear – thus  dating it to 1814-15 (Pearce, 1976¹).   The blade is stamped ‘OLIVER’.   Oliver & Ogle was listed in directories after 1816 as factors and manufacturers of pen and pocket knives, phlemes, lancets, scissors, and razors.  The address was 12 Sycamore Street; the partners were Thomas Oliver and Joshua Ogle.  The former was described as a merchant; the latter was the landlord at the Mermaid, Orchard Street.   In 1822, they dissolved their partnership.  Oliver continued alone but by 1825 had launched Oliver & Webster at the same address.   Oliver and Ogle died within days of each other:  Ogle on 9 April 1826, aged 56; and Oliver on 29 April 1826, aged 39.  Both were buried in the parish churchyard (St Peter & St Paul).  William Webster & Son became the ‘successor’.

^1. Pearce, M, Sheffield Penknives (Sheffield, 1976)  Sheffield City Museums Information Sheet: No 13