The first notice of this company in the press was a ‘wanted’ advertisement in 1921 for a young girl for finishing tea knives and fish eaters. The firm was based at 145 Eldon Street, where it operated as a cutler and silversmith. The owner was Christopher Dixon (1894-1961). He had been born at Dudley Street, Walsall, the son of Francis (a carter and later building labourer) and his wife, Margaret. By 1911, Christopher Dixon was a silver warehouseman, who was living in Heeley.  In 1922, C. Dixon & Co first appeared in a Sheffield directory. By 1925, the firm had an additional partner: Herbert Hemsley (1892-1933). He had been born at Sheffield, the son of Fred Hemsley and his wife, Lilly. Fred died in 1901, aged 37, and Lilly remarried to John Moseley (a pen blade grinder at the Sylvester Works of T. Ellin). In 1911, Herbert, too, had a job there as a pen blade grinder.  After the mid-1920s, C. Dixon & Co relocated to Broomspring Works, 69 Broomspring Lane.  However, Hemsley withdrew in 1927, leaving Dixon to trade alone. Hemsley became a garage proprietor, but in 1933 he was admitted to a mental hospital at Mickleover, Derbyshire. On 16 September, he jumped out of bed, smashed a window, and cut his throat with the broken glass. The inquest recorded a verdict of suicide, while of ‘unsound mind’ (Sheffield Daily Independent, 19 September 1933). He was buried at Abbey Lane Cemetery, leaving £1,506. 

In 1931, C. Dixon & Co had become a private limited company, with £1,200 capital. The directors were C. Dixon and J. Dixon (unidentified).  The firm continued to trade during the 1930s. In the Register of England & Wales (1939), Christopher Dixon was living at Strelley Avenue, off Abbey Lane, and described himself as a table cutlery manufacturer. Dixon advertised in The Ironmonger Diary (1950) as a manufacturer of all kinds of table cutlery and flatware, with a London office at Fenchurch Street.  Besides Christopher Dixon (who lived at Totley Rise), the Sheffield directory (1951) listed John Dixon as a director of the firm. He lived at 55 Hemsworth Road, but it has not been possible so far to discover his relationship to the founder.  Christopher Dixon, a ‘retired cutlery manufacturer’, died from pneumonia and influenza on 2 February 1961 at  Trafalgar Road, Southport.  He left £1,074 to his widow, Dorothy nee Nicholson. Dixon’s firm was voluntarily wound up in 1967, when E. Tyzack was director, though a cutlery manufacturer named C. Dixon & Co was still listed in Suffolk Road in 1974.