The Cutlers - Heritage

Collections

Throughout its history, the Company has acquired furniture, pictures, silver and examples of cutlery with which to adorn its Halls.  It has surviving pieces of furniture from its early days, such a late 16th century chest in which it stored its documents. 

It has over a hundred paintings, including portraits of many of its 19th and 20th century Masters, as well as portraits of national figures. The Company is justly proud of its collection of over 900 pieces of silver, which includes at least one Sheffield hallmarked piece for every year since the establishment of the Sheffield Assay Office in 1773. 

The survival of the Company’s archives from 1624 is remarkable, which contain biographical details of more than 30,000 apprentices and freemen to 1814, as well as its accounts, minutes of meetings and administration of its assets and charities.