Established in 1878 (when it registered a silver mark in Sheffield), this company manufactured silver-ware at Fitzwalter Works, St Mary’s Road.  The founding partners were Frederick Sibray and Job Frank Hall (1851-1919).  The latter was the son of Joshua Hall, who was the brother of Ebenezer Hall (Martin, Hall & Company Ltd).  The company employed 22 workers in 1881.  It registered a silver mark in London in 1880 and by 1890 had opened a showroom at Ely Place, Holborn.  Further silver marks were registered in Sheffield in 1892, 1893, and 1907.

Frederick Sibray was described as ‘an uncompromising foe of telephone poles and overhead wires, and he was instrumental in keeping these eyesores out of the village of Dore, where he resided.  He waged a successful war against other abominations as well, and advertisement hoardings were banished from the Totley station of the Midland Railway at his instance’ (Watchmaker, Jeweller & Silver-smith, 2 February 1891).  He was reported to have died suddenly from a heart attack on 12 January 1891, aged 47, at his home Rycroft Bank, Dore.  He was apparently on his way to a concert in Dore, when he stumbled and instantly expired.  He was buried in Ecclesall churchyard, leaving £5,711.  Charles Clement Pilling (b. 1860), the son of a spring knife manager, joined the business.

In 1896, Sibray, Hall became a limited company, with a capital of £15,000 and with Job F. Hall, Charles C. Pilling, and George Pilgrim as directors.  When Hall retired in 1900, Pilling took over.  He died on 4 November 1902, leaving £1,266.  By 1911, Charles’s brother, Frank Evelyn Pilling (1868-1938), had become a partner.  Job Frank Hall, Agden Road, died on 15 June 1919, aged 68, and was buried in Ecclesall. He left £17,852.  The company – which was noted for the quality of its products – traded until 1934.  Its trade marks included a galleon in sail.  Frank E. Pilling, Elder Cottage, Drury Lane, Dore, died at the Royal Infirmary on 7 September 1938.  He left £205.