In 1922, H. G. Marsh & Co was listed as a manufacturing silversmith at Canton Works, West Street.  The owner was Harry George Marsh, who lived at Frickley Road. Before then, Marsh had been in partnership with Frederick William Thompson (as Thompson & Marsh, silversmiths, Holly Street). The latter firm had also briefly included two other partners: John William Pearson and Percy Cutler.

By 1925, Marsh was operating a holloware business at Egerton Street, but he was also a partner in Ashley, Marsh & Co Ltd.  This firm had been registered in 1925 with £5,000 capital as a cutlery, hardware, and household goods manufacturer at 19 Cambridge Street (Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 13 May 1925).  Besides Harry G. Marsh, the partners included George William Ashley and S. M. Beveridge (Glasgow).  Within four months, the business was bankrupt.  

The identity of Harry George Marsh is slightly uncertain: an individual of that name was living in Rotherham in 1911 as a ‘letter press machine man’. Born at Shoreditch in 1887, he later moved to Repton to work as an electrical engineering salesman. He died at Barking, London, in 1976.

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