THAT'S information :thumbup: When did your grandfather's great cousin give it to him? Does he know how long he had had it? Where was this? What condition was it in when your grandfather was given it? Is there a sheath? If so, can you show it please? Can you also show the reverse side of the knife please? :thumbup:
The knife was made by Taylor's Eye Witness of Sheffield, a company which traces its roots back to 1828, and still exists today.
John Taylor began his business in St Philip's Road, Sheffield in 1828, being granted the Eye Witness mark a decade later by the Company of Cutlers. The 'eye' is the Eye of Providence. Taylor died in 1854, after which his business was acquired by his son-in-law Thomas Brown Needham, cutler and shopkeeper. Needham passed away in 1870, and the business went to one of his associates, James Veall. In 1879, Walter Tyzack, of the Sheffield Tyzack dynasty, joined the firm, and the name was changed to Needham, Veall & Tyzack. By this time, they were based in Milton Street, Sheffield (less than a mile from where the business began), and by 1887, they claimed to employ around 200 workers. In 1897, they became a limited company. Their large cutlery factory on Milton Street still stands in Sheffield (you should be able to find photos here and elsewhere), and the company only recently vacated it for newer, and much smaller premises. Like all the Sheffield cutlers, they have been in decline for many years, and were absorbed by another cutlery company, Harrison Fisher, in 1975, with the firm eventually being renamed Taylor's Eye Witness. They continue to trade under this name, selling pocket knives and table cutlery, some of it now imported from China. Their website is at:
http://taylors-eye-witness.co.uk/
I'm always on the look-out for TEW, great quality knives usually, and I'm lucky enough to find a few 
If you look around (best 'Search' function' is immediately above the threads on the right, rather than at the top of the page), you'll find photos of the TEW factory here :thumbup:
