This maker is likely to have been the forerunner of E. Pitts & Sons, which was listed in the Sheffield directory 1951 as a spoon and fork manufacturer at Portobello Lane. The founder was probably Edward Pitts (1894-1964). Before the Second World War, he was a spoon and fork filer, who lived at City Road. He had followed that trade since at least 1916, when his Army papers record that he was a silver cutlery filer. He had three sons – Edward, Ronald, and Henry – who may have been active in the business. By the late 1950s, E. Pitts & Sons was no longer listed in directories. Edward Pitts, of Bramley Avenue, Handsworth, died on 21 August 1958 (aged 64). He left £1,241.