This silver-plate firm was apparently active between 1809 and 1837.  It registered a silver mark in Furnival Street in 1810.   Law (2000)¹ suggests that one of the partners may have been Mark Furniss, though few details are available on the firm.  By 1825, it was listed as Furniss, Poles & Co; and by 1828 as Furniss, Poles, Turner & Furniss.   The London partner was A. G. Turner, who died in the metropolis on 28 May 1832 (Sheffield Independent, 7 April 1823).  In 1837, Furniss, Poles & Furniss was listed.  The partners were Henry Furniss Sen. and Henry Furniss Jun, The Edge; and William Poles, who lived in Glossop Road.  The latter died, aged 66, on 22 September 1837.   The business was dissolved and the assets and stock of the Furnival Street manufactory were auctioned (Sheffield Independent, 11 August 1838).  One of the partners, Henry Furniss (d. 25 September 1872, aged 69), later became a director of steel makers Sanderson Bros (see Naylor & Sanderson).  Meanwhile, it appears that William Briggs became Furniss, Pole’s ‘successor’ in Furnival Street.

^1. Law, Edward J., ‘Sheffield Silversmiths’ (2000). Posted at: http://homepage.eircom.net/~lawed/index.htm