The Hawley Collection has a small (27mm) copper disc struck with a cutler's mark, which would have been created when an apprentice applied to become a freeman of the Company of Cutlers'. We believe that the mark - a falchion above DG above an inverted heart (see image) - was the mark for David Greaves, admitted to Cutlers' Company on 25th September 1747.

David Greaves was born in the Bradfield area around 1720, the son of David Greaves, husbandman, and his wife, Martha, nee Heaps. He was apprenticed to John Duckenfield, cutler of Wadsley, in 1733. 

Shortly before achieving his freedom, he married Hannah Senior, on 6th Jun 1746 at Sheffield Parish church, where the couple subsequently baptised 9 children.

David took on 2 apprentices:

• William Smith in 1748
• William Beckitt of Owlerton in 1752

There is a burial for a David Greaves at the Parish Church in Jan 1792 (although this might be his son, also David, born 1749)