T & J Creswick

Thomas & James Creswick, a father and son firm of Sheffield silversmiths. This family business was started in Sheffield by grandfather Richard Creswick, founder partner of Fenton, Creswick & Co (Matthew Fenton, Richard Creswick and William Watson). All active silversmiths and Sheffield platers, and among the first to enter their mark at the Sheffield Assay Office in 1773. Thomas & James Creswick, son and father partnership, registered their first Sheffield plate mark in 1811, being a crosskeys logo. The firm later became Creswick & Co in c. 1860.