This firm advertised as a ‘manufacturing cutler’ between 1922 and 1924.  However, it appears to have done no more than buy-in and sell cutlery made by other makers.  The address in advertisements (none of which were placed in Sheffield newspapers) was simply Century Works, Sheffield.  Before the First World War, there was a Century Works in Howard Street.

In 1922, Henry James & Co advertised for an agent to call on caterers to sell the firm’s table cutlery, spoons, forks, and fish eaters (Western Morning News, 1 April 1922).  Another advertisement listed Firth’s Stainless Table knives, with finest white ivorine handles, ‘Direct from the Manufacturers’; alongside a ‘wonderful offer of Stainless Carvers to match given absolutely free’ (Cornishman, 15 November 1922).  Two years later, Henry James & Co advertised its Firth’s stainless cutlery and EPNS spoons and forks in several newspapers.  These products were targeted at caterers and boarding house proprietors (Chichester Observer, 14 May 1924; Tonbridge Free Press, 20 June 1924).  No information has been found on the owner (or owners) of Henry James & Co and by the end of 1924 its advertisements had ceased.