George Fella was born in Germany.  By 1891, he was working as a razor grinder and living with his German-born wife, Caroline, in London.  In 1901, they were living in Mortimer Market, Tottenham Court Road, and had a son, George Carl Fella, who had been born on 4 December 1899.  George Fella died in London on 31 October 1905, aged 43, leaving £362.   His son, George Carl (he later used the name Charles), launched a scissors business in Sheffield at the end of the 1930s.  The address was Egerton Lane and Sykes Works, Milton Street.  After the war, the address was Mortimer Works, Egerton Lane.  The trade mark was ‘MORTELLA’, enclosed in a diamond.  George C. Fella lived at Abbeydale Park Rise, Totley.   He was later joined at Mortimer Works by his son, Gordon Carl Fella (1929-2015).   The latter joined scissors maker Kutrite in 1974, when he was reportedly the first manager outside the Ernest Wright family.  He next became the works director (Quality, September/October 1979).  George C. Fella Snr.  died in Sheffield in 1989, aged 89.  Gordon later shared a workshop with Stan Shaw in Garden Street.  He operated as AJS (Scissors) until he retired in the early 1990s.   Fella’s scissors are excellent quality (the author has some fine examples of Gordon Fella’s work).