Show us your Shears, Scissors, and Secateurs!

[kwigly]

Singer pinking shears made in Germany, and SMIC.S.S made in China

 

[kwigly]

Here's an interesting video of hand forging scissors (Sheffield 1965)

 

[Oregon rock crusher]

I have this pair of Seymour cutlery co shears. Just a little tight for a perfect fit for my hand but still feel pretty good and cut heavier fabric without getting squirly. Pat date is Jan 4 1887.

 

[yatg]

Picked up at a garage sale a few months ago because they looked stylish. No name that i can find. They feel pretty good in the hand.

 

[Outlawmws]

ORC, what is the switch for?

 

[Mintgrun]

Pat date is Jan 4 1887.

Those are beautiful. Love the brass bits. Here's the patent information.

US355299A - Fritz oelce - Google Patents

 

[Oregon rock crusher]

ORC, what is the switch for?

Thanks Outlaw, It does look like the shears have a switch but it is just the patented adjusting mechanism that maintains pressure between the cutting blades.

Those are beautiful. Love the brass bits. Here's the patent information.

US355299A - Fritz oelce - Google Patents

Thank you much for the Patent link Mintgrun, I'll try and attach one of the patent images here. The Brass parts are what drew me to these shears when I first saw them. Ed.

 

[RTM]

ORC, what is the switch for?

Like a hand drill, high and low speed of course.

Or is it forward and reverse, I can never remember.

 

[Outlawmws]

Like a hand drill, high and low speed of course.

Or is it forward and reverse, I can never remember.

Yes.

 

[d42jeep]

I found these in the basement today. I can’t quite make out the brand stamping.
-Don

 

[Mintgrun]

I think Crane is the brand and it says Metropolitan on the other side. Google brought up this pair with clearer stampings.

Scissors / Crane Vintage Scissors - Etsy

This Scissors & Shears item by ricracandbuttons has 12 favorites from Etsy shoppers. Ships from Sacramento, CA. Listed on Oct 12, 2022

www.etsy.com

 

[ctuai]

Sheep shears: CCC Col Cut Co. (Columbia Cutlery Company), Reading, PA.; Wilkinson England - Sound; Western Shears. They're sharp enough to cut paper. They're definitely all hand made out of one piece of steel. You grip them right under the blades. I'd imagine they would be reasonably comfortable shearing sheep. They look and sound very Edward Scissorhand-y. Learn more.

 

[ctuai]

Grass shears. Sharp. Cuts grass no problem No name. Completes Edwards Scissorhand ensemble:

 

[ctuai]

Here's that 5-inch Compton Reliance U-SET. More info here.

9" Compton U Set. Just to add to the Compton Reliance U-Set collection. I think when I looked the U-Sets they were once issued by the US military.

 

[ctuai]

Stiletto is pretty cool. I always think of them in terms of hammers.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

I think when I looked the U-Sets they were once issued by the US military.

Yup. Signal Corps, at least. And as far back as WWI.

 

[ctuai]

Yup. Signal Corps, at least. And as far back as WWI.

Sorry didn't read completely your excellent study on the U Set scissors.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

No worries! Good to see you ran into the same references.

 

[RTM]

Stiletto is pretty cool. I always think of them in terms of hammers.

Stiletto was a full tool line when owned by Baker Hamilton, a large NorCal based distributor. At some point the name was bought / traded / expired, and grabbed by a hammer manufacturer, and became the brand people associate with hammers.

Some info here

Stiletto Hammer

I found this Stiletto ball pein hammer at a moving sale Friday. It seems to be older, but I don't know just how old. It's in good shape, and has clear markings.

www.garagejournal.com

 

[four.cycle]

^ originally the house brand of Baker Hamilton (later Baker Hamilton & Pacific) the brand name was purchased by a Wisconsin hammer manufacturer:
Stiletto / Stiletto Tools, 13135 W. Lisbon Rd., Brookfield WI 53005 / https://stiletto.com / house brand of Baker Hamilton, later Baker Hamilton & Pacific /

 

[ctuai]

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.

 

[Outlawmws]

New arrivals from the final estate clean out of my mom's place on Sunday. She passed a week ago today, 9 months 1 week after being moved to assisted living, and one month to the day after a fall that fractured her pelvis. She's at peace now.

The "children's scissors" are Claus, above and below were made in Italy, all else were US. another common set of Fiskars are elsewhere, already. The pair of surgical scissors used to have gold plated finger grips, and need sharpened the most adn she used them to death.

Those long pairs cut my hair many a time!

All of these are at least 45 years old (surgical pair), if not more than 70 to more..

 

[Farmer J.]

New arrivals from the final estate clean out of my mom's place on Sunday. She passed a week ago today, 9 months 1 week after being moved to assisted living, and one month to the day after a fall that fractured her pelvis. She's at peace now.

The "children's scissors" are Claus, above and below were made in Italy, all else were US. another common set of Fiskars are elsewhere, already. The pair of surgical scissors used to have gold plated finger grips, and need sharpened the most adn she used them to death.

Those long pairs cut my hair many a time!

All of these are at least 45 years old (surgical pair), if not more than 70 to more..

Condolences on your loss, and may your Mum's old scissors and your memories stay with you for many years to come.

 

[Outlawmws]

Thx Farmer

 

[RTM]

Well, here's one that almost got away. Picked this pair up some time back, and was going to move it forward this holiday season. Decided to give the brand name one more look, and found out that they were a cutlery distributor located about 10 miles from the house. I've driven past their old location a few dozen times in the past few years.

Sword & Shield was located in San Mateo in 1966, and apparently was a wholesale distributor, selling from 1965 until about 1986, based on when I can find ads in the old newspapers online at the Calif Digital Newspaper Collection. There was apparently a time spent in Santa Rosa, 2 hours north of here, around 1968 and following (clicking link will download a letter from him, with logo, etc). The link here is to my favorite ad, copied below, from a 27 Jan 1984 copy of the Santa Cruz Sentinel. Just look at the names we like in there, Thorsen & Workmate. The location was a victim of the Loma Prieta earthquake



Oh yeah, on to my Shears. Kind of a diminutive pair at 5.5" of blade, 11-1/4" OAL.

The image is the words Sword & Shield over a Shield with 2 crossed swords, and an S in the top and bottom quadrants of the X made by the swords. No idea who the actual manufacturer was in Solingen, but maybe one day we will get that good.

This is the image I shared on the other side of the house.

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And here are some detailed shots











Instead, I will rehome the pair in the next post, gotta keep the locals around.

 

[RTM]

Here is a pair of Wiss Inlaid No 20. These poor things were beat on in their previous life, but loved as well. They've been sharpened so often the tips don't meet anymore, and the little nub between the loops is filed down to about 0. A great pair for the garage, I don't think you can hurt them. And definitely better than taking a household pair into the garage. With the little nub filed down, they are kind of small for my 9.5" around hands, and the ones above fit better. Listed as Bent Trimmers, I first find them in a 1952 price list.

I think I got them out of the garage sale of a former flooring guy, but can't find the pix to confirm it just yet.

Here they are







You can see some serious scratching on the blade here




And the model number

 

[Outlawmws]

RTM the ad pic isn't working, and the link to the Sentinel goes to the top page?

 

[RTM]

RTM the ad pic isn't working, and the link to the Sentinel goes to the top page?

Hmm, That may be an device specific problem if looking on your phone, I occasionally run into links that break on my ipad, but work elsewhere. On my Android, ipad and PC, it jumps to the highlighted words. Page 6 left edge, middle of the page. Are you jumping to page 6, or what exactly does "top page" mean?

And the ad shows up on all three also. I wrote it on my PC, so checked the link in incognito mode too .

 

[Mintgrun]

I'll add the ad, just for fun, to see if it shows up for him.

 

[Outlawmws]

Hmm, That may be an device specific problem if looking on your phone, I occasionally run into links that break on my ipad, but work elsewhere. On my Android, ipad and PC, it jumps to the highlighted words. Page 6 left edge, middle of the page. Are you jumping to page 6, or what exactly does "top page" mean?

And the ad shows up on all three also. I wrote it on my PC, so checked the link in incognito mode too .

Now they are both working? My Ltop is ancient and may have been bogged down for complete loading.

I'm not a "Phone guy" I rarely us it for internet stuff unless forced to. actual calls ot TxT is about all...

 

[Private Lugnutz]

I found these antique tailors' shears at the flea this morning, slathered in black paint. I didn't even know they had a fancy brass shear bolt. I was hoping once I cleaned them up a little that I would find a mark, but no such luck. They look the same era as the cuts from the 1912 WISS catalog, but they don't match either of those patterns precisely, and they match the upholsterers' shears with plain screw-bolts (not shown) even less.

 

[Outlawmws]

Regardless, that's a nice pair!

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Regardless, that's a nice pair!

Yup. I may try to restore them.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Found a ca. 1941 8" U-SET to go with my ca. 1939 5" U-SET this morning at the flea. It's not as clean as its little companion, but at least nobody has whittled down the finger guards!

 

[Mintgrun]

Congratulations. Those are very nice. They have good leverage, with all that length behind the pivot point. I reach for mine all the time.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

They really are nice shears. Noticeably more robust, a little thicker in the withers, than others.

 

[genog]

I'll add the ad, just for fun, to see if it shows up for him.

I grew up in Santa Cruz and remember Santa Cruz Hardware well
Eastside Hardware was closer to us and that was our Go-To place until Orchard Supply came to Capitola in the early 70's

 

[kwigly]

Here is a pair of Wiss Inlaid No 20.

Thanks for the link RTM, it lists my "Wiss Inlaid" "No 22" scissors.
I like these big scissors with their sculpted grips, also have another similar pair marked "Wm Jenson" (although that might be an Owner's etching)

 

[Outlawmws]

Since I can't find where I stored these I had to dig out an old pic (probably incomplete..)

 

[Private Lugnutz]

I've been hankering to find some vintage kitchen shears after seeing this illustration in a 1950 WISS cat...



...and especially after seeing @Mintgrun posted his WISS (post #71) and @Mark Stansbury posted his Clauss (post #77), and I finally got lucky, snagging these at the flea market yesterday.



They are not marked. The halves each have die marks, 61 and 65, near the pivot, with a little dimple next to them, respectively. I doubt they're WISS or Clauss, but these could be used to possibly identify the OEM in the future. See thumbnails.