Standing  aprox. 9.5" Tall, this item was made by the T.W. Easton & Co firm which ended operations in 1911. --  the company had a varied history and per https://www.hawleysheffieldknives.com --   This cutlery manufacturer can be traced the activities of Samuel Eaton, who was a table knife manufacturer in Hawley Croft. According to the records of the Company of Cutlers, Samuel Eaton was the son of Thomas, a cutler in Sheffield. Samuel was apprenticed in 1777 and became a Freeman in 1796. Samuel was listed in directories in Hawley Croft after 1816. He married Hannah Wigfall and they had a son, Thomas Wigfall Eaton (1792-1853). Samuel and Thomas traded together in the 1820s, but they became insolvent in 1824 and again in 1828. Samuel s death date is untraced. Thomas may have been working as a warehouseman in Fitzwilliam Street by 1833. By 1841, he was a traveller, who lived in Hanover Street (where he was enumerated in the Census as an engraver , with George, a razor smith, and his mother Elizabeth). In 1844, Thomas registered a silver mark ( TE ) from an address in Radford Street, where he manufactured (or factored) table knives, silver-plated desserts, spring knives, and razors. He resided at Mount Pisgah. By 1852, the enterprise had been renamed T.W. Eaton & Co and had moved to New Church Street its address until the end of the century.Thomas W. Eaton died at Douglas, on the Isle of Man, on 10 July 1853, aged 60. The General Cemetery register recorded that he died from heart disease and that the burial was unconsecrated. His two sons by his wife Elizabeth Blythman Henry William Eaton and George Blythman Eaton took over the business. In 1861, the bachelor brothers were living with their mother, Elizabeth, in Parker s Road. The brothers later moved to No. 23 Broomhall Place, while continuing to run Eaton s in New Church Street. Presumably, they were merchants and not manufacturers. The Eatons had retired by 1891. Henry William Eaton died on 20 October 1893, aged 70, leaving 17,830; George on 30 August 1897, aged 73, leaving 40,619. They were buried in the family grave in the General Cemetery. According to an Eaton descendant (George Partridge in written communication to author, 2012), George s assets and wealth passed to trustees and not his blood relatives. Another silver mark ( TWE & Co ) was registered in 1897 from Albert Works, Cambridge Street. Between 1899 and 1911 when it began electro-plating T.W. Eaton s address was Solly Street. One of the trustees was James Edward Sutton (d. 1907) and it was his brother, John, who was listed in directories as Eaton s senior partner between 1901 and 1911 after which Eaton s apparently ceased trading.