This partnership involved Joseph Hepworth (c.1833-?) and Albert Pilley (c.1840-1902).  Joseph was born in Sheffield; Albert in Worksop.  Their firm was listed in Market Street in 1879 as a cutlery merchants, general commission agents, and importers of foreign merchandise.  The trade mark was ‘STAR CUTLERY COMPANY’.  In the Census (1881), Pilley lived in Chippinghouse Road and employed three men; Hepworth was in Crescent Road and had a workforce of eleven men and a woman.  Hepworth, Pilley was dissolved in 1882, when McClelland Bros was formed.  Hepworth continued to trade in Snig Hill and then Fitzalan Square, but left Sheffield and by 1901 was living in Tideswell and working as a manufacturer’s agent. Pilley continued as a cutlery manufacturer and illuminating artist.  Albert Pilley, Broad Lane, died on 28 November 1902, aged 62.  He was buried in St Michael’s Roman Catholic churchyard, leaving £197.  There are a number of references to Pilley's work as an illustrator in James S. Dearden 'John Ruskin and Illuminated Addresses' p120-130.  Pilley's illimination of the Address on the Opening of Sheffield Town Hall in 1897 is highlighted.