Richardson & Binney Ltd was registered as a private limited company in 1925, with £500 capital. The partners were Joseph Henry Richardson (1871-1951), of Herries Road, and John Jarvis Binney (1874-1952), of Blake Street. They had started business as manufacturing silversmiths at 8 Union Lane (Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 18 November 1925). J. H. Richardson had been a director of his father’s company Richard Richardson Ltd  – indeed, the new firm used that company’s trade mark. J. J. Binney had been born in Sheffield, the son of John (a brass turner from Birmingham) and his wife, Emma.  John Jarvis was enumerated in the Census (1911) as a manufacturing silversmith (worker).

By 1930, Richardson & Binney was styled as an electro-plate manufacturer at Bowdon Street – though it was probably mostly a factor.  After the Second World War, it advertised in The Ironmonger Diary (1950) as a spoon, fork, and holloware manufacturer at Signet Works, 117 Eldon Street.  However, within a couple of years the partners had died. Richardson died on 13 March 1951, leaving £1,002; Binney on 19 June 1952, leaving £2,560. In the 1960s, Richardson & Binney was listed in directories as a cutlery manufacturer at Holly Street, but was struck off the register of companies in 1971.