500 Sheffield Treasures: a guide to identifying and collecting Sheffield cutlery and flatware - Nick Duggan [2025]

Written by one of the Hawley volunteers ’500 Sheffield Treasures’, highlights a wide range of Sheffield items of cutlery and flatware . The book is designed to help people identify and explore a range of items made in Sheffield at the height of the cutlery boom..

It uses a collection of Sheffield made objects, cutlery and flatware to highlight:

• The skill of the Sheffield craftsmen and women who made cutlery and flatware
• The eccentricity of dining in the Victorian and Edwardian era
• The Sheffield companies that competed with each other to dominate the world market
• The opportunity to search in the attic, the cutlery drawer, the charity shop for real Sheffield Treasure
• The places and resources where the story is still told and developing

The books 120 pages highlight a huge range of objects that were made in the city with very specific functions , tells you how to decipher the makers marks and understand the wide range of materials that were used for handles.