Allan Mackenzie Sutherland (c.1853-1914) and George Guirnam Rhoden (1868-1946?) were business partners. Sutherland was an electro-plate salesman, living in Sheffield with his mother Annie in 1881 (both had been born in Scotland). George G. Rhoden had been born in Wrexham, the son of Samuel (a brewer) and Ann Kenrick. George became a silversmith. In 1898, Sutherland and Rhoden registered a silver mark from Carver Street, as manufacturers and dealers in gold, silver, electro plate and Britannia metal goods at Balmoral Works. The firm became a private limited company in 1913 with £5,000 capital. Allan M. Sutherland, Earl Marshall Road, died on 18 September 1914, aged 71, leaving £2,257. He was ‘well-known in amateur theatrical circles’ (Sheffield Yearbook & Record).
By the end of the First World War, Sutherland & Rhoden traded from Matilda Street, with a showroom in Hatton Garden, London. It also owned John Gallimore. It sold a wide range of plated cutlery, besides razors, and used the trade mark ‘SUPERB’ (which had once been owned by John Coe). The firm apparently ceased trading by the mid-1920s. George G. Rhoden may have died at Ashbourne, Staffordshire, in 1946, aged 78. Culme (1987)1 contains a brief profile of the company.