Taylor Sawtell Ltd
This firm made ornamented silverware – such as serving dishes and fish carvers – by laboriously sawing out (piercing) patterns in the metal. It resulted from a merger in 1933 of two sawpiercing enterprises: Taylor & Taylor, Button Lane; and Edwin Sawtell & Son, Charles Street. The first had been founded in about 1910 by Jonathan Cousen Taylor (1860-1914?) and his son, David Robson Taylor (1887-1969). The other had been launched by Edwin Sawtell (born in Bristol, c. 1820), who by 18....
