Ascend Cutlery Works was a

cutlery Cutlery (also referred to as silverware, flatware, or tableware), includes any hand implement used in preparing, serving, and especially eating food in Western culture. A person who makes or sells cutlery is called a cutler. The city of Sheffie ...

manufacturing company based in Sheffield, England. The company was founded by William Thomas Staniforth in 1849 on Arundel Lane and was noted for its razors,

table knives Table may refer to: * Table (furniture), a piece of furniture with a flat surface and one or more legs * Table (landform), a flat area of land * Table (information), a data arrangement with rows and columns * Table (database), how the table data ...

, and

scissors Scissors are hand-operated shearing tools. A pair of scissors consists of a pair of metal blades pivoted so that the sharpened edges slide against each other when the handles (bows) opposite to the pivot are closed. Scissors are used for cutti ...

When William Thomas Staniforth died in 1890, the company was passed to his son of the same name. It did not last into the 20th century, and with his son emigrated to Canada, the company folded. The company was featured at the

1893 Chicago World's Fair The World's Columbian Exposition (also known as the Chicago World's Fair) was a world's fair held in Chicago in 1893 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1492. The centerpiece of the Fair, hel ...

.Official Catalogue of the British Section (Great Britain. Royal Commission for the Chicago Exhibition, 1893)

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