William Fisher & Sons, Dealers & Manufacturers of Horn Handles & Scales, Orchard Place

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William Fisher & Sons, dealers and manufacturers of horn handles & scales, Orchard Place. 

Advertisement from Illustrated Guide to Sheffield, Pawson and Brailsford 1862.

 

Sheffield Directory 1852

Fisher, William & Sons, horn haft scale and umbrella hook manufacturers and ivory, tortoiseshell, pearl, stag, bone & etc. merchants, 27 Orchard Place. 

Fisher, Charles. horn & etc. Merchant (William & Son) h. 260 Western Bank. 

Fisher, Paul England (William & Son) h. Shirecliffe Cottage. 

Fisher, William sen, horn, ivory etc., Merchant. h. Woodside. 

Fisher, William jun, horn, ivory & etc.merchant. h. Belmont. 

 

Advertisement 1859 Melville Directory

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Of course horn of all sorts was important for cutlers…which is why the Cutlers Company’s coat of arms shows an elephant.

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Property between Church Street and Orchard Place.

Plan of tenaments proposed to be demised to John Fisher and two building lots set out for Joseph Badger & Jonathan Rhodes.  Fairbanks 1789

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Orchard Place

New subdivisions of Wadsworth's Croft near Brelsforths Orchard. (modern Orchard Place)  Fairbanks 1784

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Robson's Directory 1839.

Fisher, William, Orchard Place, Orchard Street, dealer in ivory, tortoise shell, mother of pearl shells, stag & buck horns, ox & cow horns & manufacturer of horn handles

 

Whites Directory 1849.

Fisher, Charles, horn &etc merchant, 260 Western Bank. 

Fisher, Wm & Son, horn, haft & scale & umbrella hook mnfrs. & ivory, tortoise shell, pearl, stag, horn &etc. merchts, 27 Orchard Street. 

Fisher, Wm sen., horn, ivory &etc.  merchant, h. Woodside. 

Fisher, Wm jun., horn, ivory & etc. merchant, h. Belmont. 

 

Whites Directory 1856.

Fisher, Chas., horn &etc merchant, h. 260 Western Bank

Fisher, Paul England, ( Wm & Sons) h. Shirecliffe Cottage

Fisher, Wm & Sons, horn pressers and ivory, tortoiseshell, pearl, stag, bone & etc. merchants, 27 Orchard Place. 

Fisher, Wm sen., h 123 Woodside. 

Fisher, Wm jun., h. Belmont, Park. 

 

Whites Directory 1862.

Fisher, Charles, horn, bone, ivory and hard Wood merchant, 65 Brown Street, h. 269 Western Bank. 

Fisher, Paul England, horn cutter and ivory &etc merchant, (Fisher, Wm & Sons) h. Shirtcliffe Cottage, Pitsmoor. 

Fisher, Wm sen Esq., h.123 Woodside, Pitsmoor. 

Fisher, William & Sons, horn pressers and cutters and ivory, tortoiseshell, pearl, stag &etc. merchants, Orchard Place. 

Fisher, Wm jun., horn &etc. (Fisher, Wm & Sons), h. Belmont, Norfolk Road. 

 

Whites Directory 1879.

Fisher, Mrs. Charles, h. 286 Western Bank. 

Fisher, W & Sons, horn, bone, hardwood & horn tip merts & horn cutters and pressers, Orchard Place, Orchard Street. 

Fisher, Wm,  (W & Sons) h. The  Grange., Norton. 

 

Local Studies Sheffield Telegraph Obituary List. 

Charles Fisher, 20th May 1878

Paul England Fisher, of William Fisher & Son, 24th April 1870.

W. Fisher, of Woodside, 29th November 1861.

William Fisher, of Norton Grange, 25th May 1880.

 

 

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Link to Obituary of William Fisher 1861 lived Woodside, Pitsmoor

https://www.sheffieldhistory.co.uk/forums/topic/6546-obituary-for-william-fisher/

 

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William Fisher jun died 1880. Lived Norton Grange. 

s08630 from Sheffield Illustrated Vol 2 page 84

 

Obituary for William Fisher junior 

https://www.sheffieldhistory.co.uk/forums/topic/11580-william-fisher-d-1880/

 

 

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Obituary of Paul England Fisher died 1870

https://www.sheffieldhistory.co.uk/forums/topic/10659-death-of-paul-england-fisher/

 

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Link to William Fisher enquiry

https://www.sheffieldhistory.co.uk/forums/topic/9300-william-fisher/

 

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Horn cutlass handle parts made by William Fisher & Sons

https://collection.maas.museum/object/2226

Horn cross pendant made by William Fisher & Sons

https://collection.maas.museum/object/2230

Knife handle making 

https://journals.openedition.org/artefact/1237?lang=en

 

https://www.hawleytoolcollection.com/index.php?sheffield-tool=Downloads2

 

 

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Along with George Butlers I would say that all cutler's bought their colloquial known as stag from the African and Indian continents, besides the Americas and Canada.

It was an art matching the stag to make sets for carver sets, steak eaters but sadly that art was lost and most pieces of stag were dyed the same colour. Then plastic imitation stag was introduced, if you can't tell the difference just put a flame to it and it will ignite, real stag won't.

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Residence of Paul England Fisher. Shirecliffe Cottage top middle 

Residence of William Fisher senior, Woodside bottom toward the left

 

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