According to the firm’s trade advertisements, it was founded in 1835.  In 1841, George Nixon was listed as a pen and pocket knife manufacturer in Jericho Street.  By 1845, his address was Mount Pisgah (Crookes).  This would have been Nixon’s residence and office rather than a factory.  In 1851, he described himself as a ‘cutlery master employing one man’ (Census, 1851).  His son, Joseph, was a commission agent.   His second daughter, Sarah Ann, married Charles Platts.  By the mid-1850s, George still resided at Mount Pisgah, but had a working address with his son in Headford Street.  By the end of the 1850s, George Nixon & Son had moved to Davenport Works, Rockingham Street, and was listed as a manufacturer of Bowies, lock knives, dirks, and hunting knives.  In 1860, a directory had an advertisement for the firm.  However, in the following year the partnership ended, probably because of George’s retirement.  Joseph established Nixon & Winterbottom.  George Nixon died on 15 March 1867, aged 68.  He was buried in Bradfield (his birthplace).  He used a pyramid trade mark.  A spear-point knife marked ‘United States Hunting Knife’ is depicted in Capwell (2011)¹ with two pyramids, above the word ‘DELTA’.

^1. Capwell, Tobias, The World Encyclopedia of Knives, Daggers, and Bayonets (Wigston, Leics, 2011)