This company was listed in 1857 as a manufacturer of razors in Eyre Lane.  The partners were John Stacey and John Clemishaw Pease.  The former was the son of William Stacey (c.1794-1871), who since the 1820s had been a partner in William & George Stacey, ironmongers, in Market Place/Fruitmarket.  The enterprise was also variously described as a gas fitter, whitesmith, bell hanger, and gutta percha dealer.   By 1851, this business was apparently in the hands of John C. Pease.  He was the son of John Pease (of Thorner) and had been born in about 1814 at Thorp Arch, Yorkshire.

In 1856, William Stacey was listed as an agent for R. R. & C. Brownell in Eyre Lane (see Brittain, Wilkinson & Brownell).  But William was about to retire.  When Stacey, Pease & Co was formed, it was William’s son, John, who became the ‘Stacey’ in the firm.  It was described as the ‘successor’ to Brownell and used the latter’s Maltese Cross and ‘GB’ trade mark.  Pease then joined John Stacey.  The ironmonger’s business in Fruitmarket was acquired by Thomas Hydes (who in 1862 advertised in Pawson & Brailsford’s Illustrated Guide as ‘successor to Messrs W. & G. Stacey & Mr J. C. Pease’). 

Stacey, Pease & Co was listed between 1860 and 1865 as merchant and manufacturer of razors and table knives, Eyre Lane and Howard Street.  In 1862, the partners took  Samuel Lawton to court for stamping his razor ‘+GB ACIER FONDU’ (Sheffield Independent, 3 December 1862).  The firm had an agency in Melbourne, Australia.  By 1868, the firm was no longer listed, and John Stacey began building organs and church clocks. William Stacey, Talbot Lodge, Park Grange Road, died on 4 August 1871, aged 77.  He was buried in Ecclesall, leaving under £14,000.  John Stacey died (aged 83) at Crich, near Matlock, on 12 March 1912, leaving £3,506.  John C. Pease died at Melbourne in 1894.  The trade mark was acquired by Gem.