Flayderman (2004)¹ shows a fine Bowie knife, etched with the slogan ‘The Gold Digger’s Companion’, and with the words ‘TRY ME’ on the ricasso inside a winged-horse.  It is marked Joseph Law, Spring Lane.  In 1841, this cutler – aged 24 with a wife, Ann – were listed as a maker of spring knives and running a beer house in Trippet Lane.   The press reported that in 1843 a Joseph Law (otherwise known as Joseph Low), spring knife cutler, Bath Street, was bankrupt.  In 1845, Joseph Law (unidentified) was listed as pen and pocket knife manufacturer in Thomas Street.  Between about 1850 and 1863, Joseph Law (and his wife Ann and family) was listed at Broomspring Lane (or Spring Lane, as it was stamped on Law’s knives).  He was described in the Census as Joseph Middleton Law, or Joseph Law Jun. He was afflicted by deafness by 1861.  Between the late 1860s and 1876, Law operated from Court 2, Sydney Street.  His name disappeared after that date.

^1. Flayderman, Norm, The Bowie Knife: Unsheathing an American Legend (Woonsocket, RI, 2004)