This manufacturer of electro-plated spoons and forks was briefly active in the early 1850s.  The partners were John Smith and Richard Griffiths Horton (bapt. 1828-1900).  Little is known about the former, though John Smith Sen. and John Smith Jun. appeared in a Sheffield directory in 1845 as silversmiths at Weigh Lane.  John Jun. assisted his father as a clerk.  By 1849, John Smith was involved in making (or selling) plated goods at Arundel Street.  In 1850, Smith moved from 26 Arundel Street to the top of Carver Street (19).  In 1852, he was listed as a manufacturer of British plate and magnetic electro-plated spoons, forks, toast racks, and cruet frames.  Richard G. Horton was the son of a grocer, Thomas Handy Horton, and his wife, Mary.  Richard seems to have been recruited by Smith as part of his office staff (perhaps working as a traveller).  

Smith & Horton was dissolved in 1854.  In that year, John Smith posted a ‘To Let’ notice, advertising one or two rooms with power at Crescent Works, Carver Street (Sheffield Independent, 4 June 1854).  The later career of the Smiths has not been traced.  Horton later moved to Liverpool  and worked as a silk mercer.  He died in London in 1900.