About Sheffield
Machine Knife

Sheffield Machine Knife Co Ltd is an old Sheffield Company with the skull and crossed bones as its registered trademark.

This has been registered as an exclusive mark since 1862. The 1953 Register of Trade Marks of Trade Marks of the Cutlers’ Company shows the trademark was registered for the following:

• Steel
• Machinery and Parts thereof
• Agricultural and Horticultural Machinery and parts thereof
• Cutlery and Edge Tools
• Metal goods not included in other classes and
• Goods of precious metals and imitations thereof.

The original company was incorporated in 1921 and dissolved in 2002, having been dormant for many years. Edward Turner and Son Ltd registered Sheffield Machine Knife Ltd on 24th April 2008 in order to preserve and use this historical name for the manufacture of “machine knives made in Sheffield” for as John Ruskin’s says “In Cutlers Iron Works we have in Sheffield the best of its kind done by English hands, unsurpassable when the workman chooses to do all he knows by that of any nation” (1867 and still true to-day).