Henry Archer & Company
The hallmarks on this Sheffield silver fruit-knife denote a date of 1870 and the maker as Henry Archer (1830-1919). He was from a family of silver chasers, who worked at Hill Street. Henry was trained at the School of Art; found a job at Howard & Hawksworth; and then started business as a silversmith in Fargate. In 1854, the silver mark ‘HA’ was registered by Archer, Machin & Marsh from Whitaker’s Yard, Fargate. In the following year, ‘HA’ was registered by Archer....
