Edward Calley Manico (1847-1932) was born at Peckham, Surrey, the son of Edward Smith Manico (a merchant) and his wife, Elizabeth.  In 1871, Edward Jun. was a chemical merchant in London.  He launched his Sheffield business in about 1879 as an export house, selling table knives, forks, pocket knives, razors, and butchers’ knives.  The office was Columbia Works in West Street.  The trade mark was a mitre, similar to the mark of George Bishop.  In 1881, the business employed sixteen men and four women.  During the 1880s, it moved to Toledo Works in Hollis Croft.  But in 1887, Edward C. Manico (of Sheffield, Acton, and Houndsditch) was bankrupt with debts over £8,500 and assets of about £700.  An attempt was made to continue the business, using the trademark name of Edward Barber – apparently acquired from Hamilton & Dignam in 1882.  The mark had echoes of I. & J. Barber.   A descendant of the latter took Manico to court in 1893 to prevent the use of the name.  An injuction was granted against Manico in Ireland, relating to the sale of spring cutlery (Sheffield Independent, 8 March 1893).  By the mid-1890s, Roberts & Manico in Eyre Street operated under Colin Littlewood Roberts and Herbert Manico (Edward’s son).  The trade mark was ‘R&M’ on a pen nib.   In 1894, that partnership was dissolved.

Edward C.  Manico moved to Plymouth, where he became, in turn, a land and estate agent, sugar broker, and auctioneer (as Woollan, Son, & Manico, ‘established 1848’).  Manico died at Plymouth on 19 January 1932, aged 83.   The funeral was at Highweek, Newton Abbot.