Show us your Shears, Scissors, and Secateurs!

[Private Lugnutz]

^ Yes, sorry, thanks for reminding/correcting, I was confusing them with someone else's, and I can see that I actually came to the same conclusion when I was discussing them with him, and later again in the post you just quoted me on! (I need to add him to my light horse-trading banter to fill that envelope! )

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Still in the process of posting my Friday flea finds (Pic 1), two down (that Ridgid offset and the 4-in-1 nested screwdriver) and a few more (that needed overnight de-rusting and more meticulous cleaning) to go. Here are those funky looking shears on the right, in the very back. They are J. Wiss & Sons "F.H. 2", which is the second-generation design of their "Flower Holding" garden shears.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

The idea, illustrated in the 1934 catalog cut, is to hold and snip the stem, protecting it from being crushed. They also appear in the 1937 catalog, gone by 1948. Notice the "PAT. APPD. FOR" marking. In a delightful email conversation with Don Wiss, the great-grandson of the founder, who runs that excellent J. Wiss history website, he says they never appeared with a patent number, and he is not aware of one being awarded, but, he has never done a deep search, either.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

X-Linking a tiny Boker

Hermann Boeker

I found these two Boker tools at a Tahoe garage sale yesterday. I’m not sure what the upper pair is for but if I was changing an oil filter I’d give them a try. -Don

www.garagejournal.com

 

[LesserSon]

Great find! Except for some minor superficial rust, they're in VG condition and look like they'll spiff up very well. Despite all the prior discussion you quoted above, I think they might be the first on the thread. Tom's are not WISS and mine are not marked and also likely not WISS.

Since you quoted my post, I'm sure you saw that...

Those shears clearly belong with this merchandising envelope, and vice versa! The only question is in whose basement?

2nd pair! Now we don’t have to decide whose basement!

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Now we don’t have to decide whose basement!

If I'm interpreting that correctly as, "You can have one of these two, Lugz," you're a gem, LS!

 

[Steve from Socal]

Here are my general use scissors/shears. The smaller chrome scissors are medical/surgical, the smallest are eye scissors.

 

[Mintgrun]

I also found another pair of WISS shears, marked K.S. like the ones I already had; but these have the bottle opener and the extra chisel-tip/screw-mangler on the thumb loop. I found them in the tool section at Habitat and moved them into the kitchen utensil area for someone else to find. I was happy to find them again yesterday and brought them home.



The finger loop is almost the same as the yellow pair, with an added pad in the middle and both loops share the dull grippers on the insides. These look more like crab-crackers and I suspect the handle pad is meant for hammering. The serrations are not nearly as grippy as the 1K.S. L.S. posted above.



Cracking crabs is salty work and chrome plated kitchen tools lead a hard life.



The claw-crackers are an aluminum alloy, with brass pins and stainless washers.

I really like vintage kitchen tools.
Tom

 

[four.cycle]

I really like vintage kitchen tools.

^ Same here. They do speak a great deal about the evolvement of modern western culture - far more than do wrenches and pliers.

 

[d42jeep]

When I saw these at a garage sale on Saterday, the seller joked that they were for shearing small sheep, since he had some larger sheep shears. Although somewhat rusty, they were too cute to leave behind. Evaporust took care of the rust.
-Don

 

[Beerhippie]

Those look a lot like Japanese shears for bonsai work.

Mini Snips by Niwaki | Boston General Store

Traditional Nigiribasami snips made of stainless steel, fantastic for bonsai, herbs and other jobs that call for minute precision, as well as fabric and sewing work, and fine paper cutting. Made in Japan by Niwaki.

www.bostongeneralstore.com

Now you need to figure out how to pronounce Nigiribasami.

 

[d42jeep]

Could be just what it is. There are some symbols on one blade.
-Don

 

[RTM]

Big fish eating little fish?

 

[Private Lugnutz]

I'm not always so easily prompted to make off-topic recommendations, but speaking of bonsai, if anyone is ever in or near Washington, D.C., do not miss the opportunity to visit the National Bonsai & Penjing Museum within the U.S. National Arboretum. It features hundreds of specimens, dozens of varieties and styles, some of them centuries old. It is simply amazing. Some teasers from my last visit.

 

[psu8865]

Scissors: Clauss #3210; Compton U Set no. 2U, 9"; Clauss no. 9769; Kingshead Etakut, Italy; no name; no name, Italy; Wiss Trimline #7427; Wiss 2DA. I don't know why I collect scissors as they're almost never sharp, difficult to sharpen and easy to mess up. Nonetheless, I do find myself with a growing collection despite myself.

I picked up a lot of misc shears at a garage sale today- most rusty junk but 2 pair of Compton among them- I've never seen them before. They seem very high quality- I can't wait to clean them up. I'm very new to the shears/scissors scene.

 

[four.cycle]

top to bottom:

the first three pairs are hairdresser shears:

J. Wiss & Sons Co., Newark, NJ

Peter J. Michels Inc., 630 Fieldcrest Rd., Lancaster, PA 17601 (also Brooklyn, NY) / ca. 1914-1955 / "C-MON" barbers shears, straight razors / see also Ace Cutlery Co., Ellicottville, NY / https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/commission_decision_volumes/volume-40/vol40.pdf / < interesting history on this one.

Zotos / Zotos International, 100 Tokeneke Rd., Ste. 1, Darien, CT 06820 (originally New York, NY)(300 Forge Ave. Geneva, NY 14456-0071 2019) / wholly owned subsidiary of Shiseido Americas Corp. / est. 1929 / acquired 2017 by Henkel AG & Co. KGaA, Dusseldorf, Germany / shears, scissors /

and at bottom:

R. Heinisch Sons Works, Newark, NJ

I gave my buddy my big Wiss shears when I found this Heinisch pair - so nice.

 

[four.cycle]

Wiss model A9 12½ inch Straight Pattern Snips 06/15/26