This cutler appears to have been active as a pen and pocket knife cutler in Scotland Street and then Rockingham Street, where an Edward Barber is listed, respectively, in 1816 and 1822.   By the mid-1820s, Barber’s business can be positively identified in South Street.  Edward Barber, South Street, Sheffield Moor, died on 30 April 1834, aged 58.  His widow, Mary, or ‘relict’, died in Manchester on 27 February 1849, aged 75, and was buried alongside the remains of her husband in St George’s cemetery, Portobello.  Their son Edward had died on 24 December 1846, aged 33, and his remains lie in the same grave (the tombstone has survived).  The business was listed as Barber & Brookes in 1839 and 1841, but this partnership with Ebenezer Brookes was dissolved in 1844.  Barber’s trade mark was a crown (picture) above the words: ‘EDWARD BARBER.  CUTLER TO HER MAJESTY.  SHEFFIELD’.  Michael Hamilton later became Barber’s ‘successor’.   Manico also used the name ‘Edward Barber’; and by 1919 the mark had passed to Thomas Ellin.