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Edwin Henry Dale (1886-1963) was the son of Edwin Henry Dale Sen. (1850-1922), a table knife hafter, and his wife, Ellen. Son followed father into table knife hafting, though they were not owners of a business. Edwin Henry Sen. died in 1922 and was buried at City Road Cemetery. In 1925, Edwin H. Dale Jun. was convicted of receiving stolen goods (spoons and forks sequestered from J. H. Potter). He was fined £30 (Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 13, 17 April 1925). By the 1930s, he was employed at Dearden & Richmond, but had started business on his own account. Local directories listed him as Edwin Dale, stainless table knife manufacturer at 124 Fitzwilliam Street. The Hawley Collection has a stainless table knife made by Edwin Dale, which has the trade name ‘DOMINION’.
He was soon in court again – this time charged with receiving knife blades and handles (worth £44), which had been stolen from Dearden & Richmond. He was sentenced to six months in prison (Sheffield Independent, 4 August 1933). He resumed trading and in the Register of England & Wales (1939) was living at Dial House Road and was a ‘cutlery manufacturer (small way)’. In the 1950s, he was listed as a table knife manufacturer at 28 Cambridge Street. His name appeared in directories until his death in 1963. He was buried at Wisewood Cemetery on 25 July 1963.