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 running errands this morning, I spotted a pretty, ornate
pair of very old scissors. They are marked 800 ("coin" silver as
opposed to sterling), and show what's left of some engraving on the
blades.
But... once I actually started looking at them, I suspected that
they are not scissors at all! The "back" blade, (referred to that
way because when you look at that side, you're looking at the back
of the two human figures), is solid across the whole blade portion
of the implement. On the *front*, the blade is just half as wide,
and neatly fits into a recession of the back blade. If you look at
the first picture I've posted, you can see this (barely). Neither
of the blades is sharp, and they don't appear to ever have been
sharpened. So my question is, what are they?
I remember that when I took Honiton, we were encouraged to have a
pair of dull scissors to help us with the handling of the threads
(to make a swift bundle of the loose ends when starting a piece).
Looking at this "thing", I'm wondering if it were designed for just
such a purpose.
Does anyone out there know what I've found??
Clay
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