Charles H. Wood was born in Sheffield in about 1831.  He was the son of Samuel Wood, a table knife cutler living in Sylvester Street in 1841, and his wife Esther.  Charles, too, was trained as a table knife cutler and later established his own enterprise.  He became insolvent in 1858.  However, he appeared in Business Directory of Sheffield (1862) at Headford Works, Headford Street, as a specialist Bowie knife maker (alongside only four other Bowie manufacturers) In 1867,  Wood was arrested and tried for allegedly receiving 700 tables knives, the property of Lister & Knowles, knowing them to be stolen.  He was found not guilty (Sheffield Independent,  23, 25 May 1867).  His address was Duke Street, Moor (1868), and Moorhead Works, Charles Street (1871).  By then, Wood – perhaps responding to the decline of the Bowie knife trade – advertised juvenile joiner’s tools, besides table knives.  After the early 1870s, he apparently alternated spells as a cutlery manufacturer with work as an auctioneer/valuer.  He lived in Wostenholm Road and had apparently retired by the 1890s.  He was buried in Norton cemetery on 4 June 1897, aged 66.