Hi Jacquie, and everyone else who responded to this...
I took my treasure to guild last night, and one of the members
immediately recognized them as grape scissors. I've just googled
grape scissors, and the results I found were very similar to what I
have. Apparently, they were designed as
I have just uploaded a couple of picture to my folder on the Arachne2003
webshots. Tiny Url is *http://tinyurl.com/nwetd4***
http://tiny.cc/8CFvC
While out running errands this morning, I spotted a pretty, ornate pair
of very old scissors. They are marked 800 (coin silver as opposed to
Clay,
I think these may be grape scissors. A friend has something very similar,
but larger. Why they are shaped like this I don't know, but I'm sure
someone will tell us.
Jacquie in Lincolnshire
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After looking at that pretty object, I went through a book for
scissors collectors: 'La folie des Ciseaux' by Frederique Crestin-
Billet and the closest I found p. 58 is in silver and has two fancy
lions around the handles. It says the blades are of steel. I cannot
say what they were used
Clay,
Oh my, lovely!! What a wonderful find!!
How long are they?
Su
On Aug 24, 2009, at 2:48 PM, Clay Blackwell wrote:
I have just uploaded a couple of picture to my folder on the
Arachne2003 webshots. Tiny Url is *http://tinyurl.com/nwetd4***
http://tiny.cc/8CFvC
While out
