© Ken Hawley Collection Trust - K.1828
Scott & Sons was not a cutlery manufacturer and the name does not appear in Sheffield directories. It is likely that this table knife was made in Sheffield for a retailer. One candidate is Scott & Sons. This firm sold furniture and household goods from premises at High Street, King’s Lynn. An advertisement in The Lynn News & County Press, 25 November 1924, showed that Scott’s also had a hardware department, which sold ‘best Sheffield-made cutlery’ and ‘Firth’s stainless cutlery’. Curiously, the retailer was more usually known – apart from its run of advertisements in 1924 – as Scott & Son. It had been founded in 1874 by Thomas William Scott (1836-1915), a London-born cabinet maker and upholsterer, and continued by his son, William Crawshay Scott (1869-1938). For a detailed business history, see Martin Scott, Made in Lynn: The History of Scott & Son & Events in the Town 1874 to 1971 (Sunbeam Publications, 2009).