This merchant and general dealer in cutlery was listed only once in a Sheffield directory in 1828.  It was a Birmingham-based merchant, owned by George Henry Bibby (1791-1829) and Samuel Aspinwall Goddard (1796-1886).  The latter had been born in America and came to England after 1814 to become a merchant.  Bibby and Goddard had been in partnership with Edward C. Delevan in New York, but this ended in 1825.   George Henry Bibby died at Clifton Hotwells on 23 March 1829, aged 37 (Aris’s Birmingham Gazette, 30 March 1829).  After his death, Bibby & Goddard was operated by Goddard and by Bibby’s executrix and executor: namely, his widow, Catherine, and Charles Ellis.  They ended the partnership in 1833.  Samuel Aspinwall Goddard became well-known in Birmingham as a local politician and continued to trade as a merchant and gun-maker, though not always profitably.   He died on 24 July 1886, aged 90, at his residence, The Cottage, Little Aston (Swindon Advertiser, 7 August 1886).