This firm was launched in 1869 by Salomon Sternberger.  He had been described in the Sheffield directory (1868) as a table knife manufacturer, Eclipse Works, New George Street.  Little is known about his background, except that he was born (probably in Germany) in about 1830, and that both Sternberger and Schwab were from New York.  They planned to manufacture table cutlery on the American principle (in other words, by machinery).  In July 1869, the owners celebrated American Independence by taking 150 workpeople to Chatsworth.  Later the ‘pleasure of that day was much enhanced by the strains of the Ecclesall brass band’ (Sheffield Independent, 6 July 1869).  That was the last celebration.  At the end of the year, Sternberger left Liverpool for New York and in 1870 the firm was wound up.