The partnership was listed in 1849 at Pool Works in Burgess Street, making table, shoe, bread, butchers’, putty, palette, pruning knives (and dealing in saddler’s ironmongery). The partners – both aged about 21 and living in Eyre Street – were Thomas Keeler (1826-1869) and Charles Whitaker Saville (1826-1866).  Keeler has been born at Warwick, the son of Samuel (a saddler) and his wife, Hannah. Saville had been born in Sheffield, the son of Charles (an edge tool manufacturer) and his wife, Mary Ann. The partnership, which moved to Townhead Street, was dissolved in 1851. 

Keeler and Saville continued to trade separately as table knife manufacturers. The former traded in Carver Street (with a house in Clarence Street).  Saville advertised his table and trade knives from Townhead Street in 1852. But Saville was bankrupt by 1854, when a press notice described him as a former manager at Queen’s Cutlery Works of Mappin Bros. By 1861, he was a working as a traveller for files and steel. Saville died at Owlerton on 7 March 1866, aged 39, ‘after a long and severe affliction’ (Sheffield Independent, 10 March 1866). He was buried at Wadsley. 

Thomas Keeler was listed as a Bowie knife maker in 1865. He continued to sell knives and steels from Carver Street until his death on 22 April 1869, aged 42. He was buried at the General Cemetery. Thomas’ younger brother, Edward Keeler continued to trade as ‘late Thomas’.