Joseph Price (1817-1886) was born in Walsall, Staffordshire.  By 1850, he had married and was working in Sheffield as a spoon and fork maker.  He lived in Garden Street, but by 1859 he had moved to the Wicker and was listed in a directory as manufacturer of German silver spoons, forks, and blades – besides running a boarding house.   In 1868, Price advertised in the Sheffield directory.  He manufactured nickel-silver fish carver blades and forks and also undertook ‘fancy jobbing work’.   The firm’s address was Turbot Works, 8 Hermitage Street, which was also Price’s home.  In 1884, Price registered a silver mark ‘JP’.  After Price’s death in 1886, the enterprise was operated by his son, Walter (b. 1863).  Joseph Price remained in Hermitage Street as a fish carver maker in the interwar years until it ceased trading in about 1935.