This cutlery, tool, and general hardware merchant was founded in about 1920 and was based at Wellington Works, Wellington Street. One partner was Christopher George Marshall; the other was Charles Ainley Donovan (1871-1947).

Marshall may have been an ironmonger’s assistant from Nottingham, who had been born in about 1889, the son of a bookkeeper. He expounded his views on business in an article, ‘From Apprentice to Manufacturer’ (Ironmonger, 26 August 1922). His partnership with Donovan ended in 1923.

Possibly Marshall was the Sheffield ‘master cutler’, who was sent by magistrates to a mental asylum after fraudulently obtaining women’s underwear from two Nottingham firms and taking the items back to Sheffield in his car (Aberdeen Daily Journal, 21 November 1922). Christopher Marshall, Henry Street, was listed in 1933, but is not identified.