Etsys 100% renewable electricity commitment includes the electricity used by the data centers that host Etsy.com, the Sell on Etsy app, and the Etsy app, as well as the electricity that powers Etsys global offices and employees working remotely from home in the US. My scissors are mostly antique sewing scissors picked up at antique markets in England or France and some here in the US. Whether I collect or sell, it has been such helpful & fun to read. You've already signed up for some newsletters, but you haven't confirmed your address. $4.99 + $4.15 shipping + $4.15 shipping + $4.15 shipping. Glad you enjoyed it, Kathy! Required fields are marked *, document.getElementById("comment").setAttribute( "id", "a2f3ca767ae43d970d15608ca580c2ed" );document.getElementById("g620f8308c").setAttribute( "id", "comment" );Comment *. France | English (US) | (EUR), remembering account, browser, and regional preferences, remembering privacy and security settings, personalized search, content, and recommendations, helping sellers understand their audience, showing relevant, targeted ads on and off Etsy, remember your login, general, and regional preferences, personalize content, search, recommendations, and offers. 3.29, 3.65 Set where you live, what language you speak, and the currency you use. Set where you live, what language you speak, and the currency you use. Cookies and similar technologies are used to improve your experience, to do things like: Without these technologies, things like personalized recommendations, your account preferences, or localisation may not work correctly. They also have some Asian writing on them. In additions, shears will have one finger hole larger than the other. Here you see a pair of folding scissor signed Westfield Shear Co, Germanyanother hybrid with blades from Germany and distribution by an American company. Add to Favorites Clauss ornate handled grape shears No. These embroidery scissors, marked WASA Solingen are delicately decorated and lovely to cut with. i also have a pair of embroidery scissors with magnetic blades, i believe it is to retrieve dropped pins and needles. It can be nearly impossible to identify or date many scissors, especially without the company name. 4.5 out of 5 stars 162. . 2589050 Sewing 9" Inch, Vintage Clauss Fremont Scissors #1718 Fine Grade Made in The USA, vintage Scissors Clauss 3768 metal 8 inch crafting sewing scissors, nice shape, Vtg Clauss 12 Inch Scissors No 3752 Straight Sewing Shears USA cut smooth rusty, Vintage Clauss Scissors Sewing Chrome Shears, Lot Vintage Pinking Shears: Clauss, ELK, WISS Sewing Scissors, Vtg 9 1/4 CLAUSS SCISSORS, No 3319, Right Hand, Made USA, Black Painted Grip. $0.00 - $99.99 35 item; $200.00 and above 1 item; Brand. (5% off), Sale Price $49.50 Because of its large iron ore deposits, Sheffield (England) was a mecca, as early as 1160, for cutlery production. This dainty, 2 1/2 pair, likely used for embroidery, is one of my favorites. Vintage Electrician Scissors - shabby old Clauss Fremont O USA Bell System - wire stripper notches, serrated file edges 5 out of 5 stars (2k) $ 5.00. United States | English (US) | $ (USD). I am quite elderly now and do not have anyone to pass them along to. I would appreciate any help. Cookies and similar technologies are used to improve your experience, to do things like: Without these technologies, things like personalized recommendations, your account preferences, or localisation may not work correctly. I always take them from estate sales and friends or family getting rid of them. Collecting Vintage English Scissors Because of its large iron ore deposits, Sheffield (England) was a mecca, as early as 1160, for cutlery production. Vintage Wiss Inlaid 7" steel-forged #27 sewing scissors with black handle, Vintage Gold Medal red-handled 8" kitchen utility scissors. 5 out of 5 stars (4,302) . Also had bought flower frogs so it was a perfect idea to combine them for displaying & use on my sewing table. Vintage Clauss Small Scissors Ornate Decorative Handle 4" Made in USA, Lot of 6 Vintage Sewing Scissors USA Germany Clauss B&L Metcut Feick Bros, Vintage Sewing Scissors Lot Clauss 3219 & 4268 Moly & Wiss 38, Vintage CLAUSS 3762 Scissors Straight 7" BLADE Sewing Shears Fremont USA, Lot of 8 Vintage Scissors Wiss Clauss Hudson Line USA Various Sizes Fabric Shear, CLAUSS SCISSORS 2 inch Blade Vintage USA Small Scissors Bell System C 5 " long, Clauss Fremont USA Scissors Sewing Scissors LH 7.5 Vintage Sewing Scissors, Vintage Clauss Scissors, Shears & 2 Letter Openers in Leather Case ~NICE~ FREESH, CLAUSS Garden Club SNIPS Scissors Shears FLORAL EMBELLISHMENT Fremont USA VTG, Vintage Clauss No. Let me know how it goes . Stay a while and read about my vintage finds, check out my free price guides, and consider subscribing to get full access to my Member Library. Great article. Please advise. Take full advantage of our site features by enabling JavaScript. Mini embroidery scissors, 4 colors available. Copyright 1995-2023 eBay Inc. All Rights Reserved. Mars, Sheffield along with a crown and the letters V and R, which stand for Victoria Regina, or Queen Victoria. So great to hear Cathy I agree, I find anything connected with my grandmother to be comforting also. I love this post Dianna! It is hard to read but one side says made in germany and other appears to say Solingen. It has ornate handles and is made by Eversharp from forged steel (USA). I have 2 pair of wallpaper shears from my mother in law. Ships from and sold by www.etsy.com Etsy 6M followers More information Its also home to a whole host of one-of-a-kind items made with love and extraordinary care. Yes! Fremont Oh Cigar Cutter Tobacco From Jackson Cutlery. (50% off), Sale Price 11.78 $16.15, $17.00 Love all this! They appear to be hand-tooled steel. They are certainly similar to cutting tools that would have been precursors to our modern scissors. FREE shipping. Turning off the personalized advertising setting wont stop you from seeing Etsy ads or impact Etsy's own personalization technologies, but it may make the ads you see less relevant or more repetitive. I think youll love using a flower frog to hold your scissors, Mickie! Scissors are something I can never seem to walk away from at a garage sale. Original Price 40.00 Hi Joanyour scissors sound fascinating. Scissors have some light scratches and shipping on the enamel painted handles. Clauss Hot Forged Carbon Steel Shears, 8" Bent. Ive not come across them in my wanderings Jan. And finally, I learned a new-to-me superstition that says dropping a pair of scissors can lead to bad luck, and under NO circumstances should you pick said scissors. Perhaps your pair slipped through the cracks? (40% off), Sale Price 36.00 Fill out the requested information. I would like to purchase a screw, even an old pair of scissors, for it. Love how you display them. 1. (10% off), Keep collections to yourself or inspire other shoppers! Good luck! 1. Very unusual. Great idea Bella! Most of mine or in cups so I can enjoy the diffeent shapes and details. Sounds like you have some interesting shears. Sheffield, a city in England, attracted many cutlery manufacturers around the 1160s because of its large iron ore deposits. CLAUSS Garden Club SNIPS Scissors Shears FLORAL EMBELLISHMENT Fremont USA VTG $18.50 + $5.50 shipping Vintage CLAUSS 3762 Scissors Straight 7" BLADE Sewing Shears Fremont USA $18.00 + $6.50 shipping Hover to zoom Have one to sell? This amount is subject to change until you make payment. Plus they were made in Ohio which makes me happy. If not, use some fine steel wool. During my research, I learned that historians believe the earliest form of scissors were developed in prehistory and would have looked something like the sheep shearers of today. The shape is certainly very interesting and the blades are held together with rivets, which usually indicates an older pair. is pretty much worn off. Thanks Janice! But these are so small, right? Etsy uses cookies and similar technologies to give you a better experience, enabling things like: Detailed information can be found in Etsys Cookies & Similar Technologies Policy and our Privacy Policy. What a wonderful and informative post Diana! That would be a good clue for you to move forward with. I believe much of their inventory was imported from Solingen, Germany. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations. Im trying to gauge/guess a year for a pair of very old barbers scissors made by solingen. Diana, Im a scissor collector too! 3 VINTAGE PAIR OF USA MADE SCISSORS: CLAUSS, COMPTON & HERITAGE, SWEET! Set where you live, what language you speak, and the currency you use. The seller might still be able to personalize your item. Its also home to a whole host of one-of-a-kind items made with love and extraordinary care. Thanks for stopping by! Original Price $13.09 Thanks for the assist Seth! Just a couple of guesses. $12.91, $13.59 What an interesting post! I have about 50 pair of scissors Ive collected from years of estate and garage sales and are just now letting them go on Ebay. 11.78, 14.73 Thanks for sharing it with us. Looks to be a wild sort of art deco design with some red and black inlays. Hi again, To enable personalized advertising (like interest-based ads), we may share your data with our marketing and advertising partners using cookies and other technologies. 332 Heavy Duty Knife Edge MSRP $350 Previous Next Pricing & History Sold for Start Free Trial or Sign In to see what it's worth. Good luck! Thank you for all the research you put into this. $11.78, $13.09 This type of data sharing may be considered a sale of information under California privacy laws. Please. My own quick Google search was not as fruitful! Fun post. I have been picking them up as I found them ( cheap) and holding on to them. Absolutely! Original Price 20.52 Wish I could be of more help. Before WWII, they anglicized their name to Richards, which you can see engraved on the scissors next to the rivet (above). Alfred Hitchcock directed movies that involved any number of different murder weapons. Clauss Fremont Ohio Cigar Cutter. 2. We've sent you an email to confirm your subscription. Send me exclusive offers, unique gift ideas, and personalized tips for shopping and selling on Etsy. **LOT OF 12** Vintage Original Clauss Steel Scissors Shears - Fremont Oh 1917 Billhead Clauss Shear Co Fremont Ohio Sent To J M Smith Newport PA More Items From eBay LOBI SLING SHOT Burkina Faso SLING 25 HUGE Wallace Sterling GRANDE BAROQUE Set, 85 Pcs DeWITT JAMESVILLE COLLAMER NEW YORK ANTIQUE HANDCLR MAP Wow, what a wonderful collection. Turning off personalized advertising opts you out of these sales. Learn more in our Privacy Policy., Help Center, and Cookies & Similar Technologies Policy. Awesome post! Actually, I have always been drawn to look at scissors and at pinking shears. So much info, so many cool scissors! Im so glad you enjoyed the article Ann! Original Price 69.00 Hello, I have a pair of unique Magnetic scissors but I cannot find much info period on them. Put tapes at centre of one short edge, fill, roll up and voila! Thanks Diana- that was fun to see and learn about your scissor collection- I will have to tune into the scissors I have and ones that I might have passed bynow I will pay closer attention to their detail and history. Pre-Owned. *NOTE: Seth, a very helpful reader, informed me in the comments below that these are bookbinder scissors. Original Price 20.52 Your post last year with the scissors in a frame inspired me to look closer at estate sales for scissors. (1.7k) $10.00. I started collecting antique/vintage scissors after finding a couple of pairs at an Estate sale online. German brothers John and Henri founded the Clauss Shear Company in Fremont (OH) in 1877 (initially as the Elyria Shear Works). France | English (US) | (EUR), remembering account, browser, and regional preferences, remembering privacy and security settings, personalized search, content, and recommendations, helping sellers understand their audience, showing relevant, targeted ads on and off Etsy, remember your login, general, and regional preferences, personalize content, search, recommendations, and offers. Read our Cookie Policy. See details 3.23, 3.59 But he once said, A murder without a gleaming pair of scissors is like asparagus without hollandaise sauce.. 5:30 AM FREMONT Clauss Cutlery, which helped establish Fremont as a national center of knife and blade manufacturing, has closed here after 117 years. Found something you love but want to make it even more uniquely you? Original Price 68.41 Buy Vintage Clauss Scissors now! I made some in thick corduroy to store my fathers collection of wrist watches. Your site has lots of useful information. Click Buy it now or Add to cart and proceed to checkout. Who can resist a pair of scissors shaped like a stork?? Try using a different browser or disabling ad blockers. You can also display them in a vintage frame, as you see here. Sew together, aligning one long edge, with edges bound, and sew channels in the double layers to accept the tools. Above solingen, is another word or name and its mostly worn away but the fist three letters are clearly Cha and the name is longer than Solingen because they appear to be centered and the C is a bit to the left of the S in Solingen. Little historical artifacts, scissors have a story to tell about industry, culture, style, and even genealogy, if you are fortunate enough to have inherited a pair or two from an ancestor. Product details Vintage Clauss buttonhole scissors, nickel plated chrome, quality made in the USA Fremont, Ohio They measure 4 7/8", used for making holes for buttons by hand. I love its curves and how over-sized its finger holes appear. Unfortunately, Im not really sure how they were measured for advertising/selling purposes. American Scissors and Shears, Hello Diana. Wilhelm: Henkel-Clauss made its home in Fremont in 1880s LOCAL Wilhelm: Clauss made its home in Fremont in 1880s Roy Wilhelm Columnist 0:02 0:51 Fremont was once known as the cutlery. Quite interesting and enjoyable. They are marked Germany on one side and Western Shear Co. on the other. Youre right about that, Sharonnever too late! (5% off). Thank you. American distributors of scissors would buy wholesale shipments from various countries and then stamp their business name on them. Very interesting to know Davidthanks for passing on that info! I do miss her terribly. Our global marketplace is a vibrant community of real people connecting over special goods. We've sent you an email to confirm your subscription. Actually, I probably wont even have to leave my house to find them! I bought a very old house and found a pair of old shears with Kut Well engraved in them. Just never thought to display them but now I will. Etsy uses cookies and similar technologies to give you a better experience, enabling things like: Detailed information can be found in Etsys Cookies & Similar Technologies Policy and our Privacy Policy. So thanks for the inspiration! Great article on scissor/shear collecting, learned a lot and enjoyable to read about the manufacturing of them. Youre seeing this ad based on the products relevance to your search query. Original Price 14.73 Please enable JavaScript in your browser to submit the form, Vintage Scissors Collecting Guide [History & Values], The shape is certainly very interesting and the blades are held together with rivets, which usually indicates an older pair. You have a very informative website. Turning off the personalized advertising setting wont stop you from seeing Etsy ads or impact Etsy's own personalization technologies, but it may make the ads you see less relevant or more repetitive. A beginning scissor collector could focus on a brand, a city of manufacture, or even a color(!). They came in a wooden boat shaped box. Pre-Owned. The sell on eBay these days. (40% off), Sale Price 4.92 Im going to be talking about collecting vintage scissors: a little history, some values, and how to display them. The seller might still be able to personalize your item. Vintage CLAUSS Scissors Set in Original Plastic Case Box 7" Shears & 3 1/2" Lot. $49.50, $66.00 Another pair of, Here you see a pair of folding scissor signed Westfield Shear Co, Germanyanother. Turning off personalized advertising opts you out of these sales. Learn more in our Privacy Policy., Help Center, and Cookies & Similar Technologies Policy. I have scissors of all sizes, new and old. It says no 1700. . Sold Date Source eBay Turning off personalized advertising opts you out of these sales. Learn more in our Privacy Policy., Help Center, and Cookies & Similar Technologies Policy. Typically, orders of $35 USD or more (within the same shop) qualify for free standard shipping from participating Etsy sellers. Great! In fact, it was known in Northern Europe as the City of the Blades, and it remains the cutlery center of Germany to this day. Hi there! In 2020 alone, purchases on Etsy generated nearly $4 billion in income for small businesses. I did try that once already and have not lucked out yet. Im not sure what youre referring to exactly. Your scissors sound lovely. And such a kind compliment, Naomi. Sheffield, England. On the other hand, you could follow my example and buy every pair you come across thats priced under a dollar In which case, youll end up with a very eclectic, but thoroughly enjoyable, collection. Youre so welcome Jeri! Original Price 500.00 With powerful tools and services, along with expert support and education, we help creative entrepreneurs start, manage, and scale their businesses. To enable personalized advertising (like interest-based ads), we may share your data with our marketing and advertising partners using cookies and other technologies. Wiss may be a name you recognize in scissors and shears, due in part to the fact that early in the 20th century they ranked #1 in world scissor production. Your information is very timely for me. I am considering drilling out the screw but need to have a replacement to determine the thread pitch to get the correct tap size. They were self sharpening I think. What is the scissor companys name that has crossed palm trees as a logo? Thanks for the lesson, Ill have to check the manufacturer on the ones Ive found and using a glass flower frog to put them in is genius! Youll see ad results based on factors like relevancy, and the amount sellers pay per click. Might you know any information about this pair of scissors? 89.40, 149.00 Im so glad you enjoyed the post, Terry . This pair of vintage scissors are 6 3/4" long with engraved roses on the handles, Clauss Fremont O, U.S.A. on one side and Garden Club on the other. So informative and easy to read. Through the 1700s rivets connected the blades (as seen above), after that, screws. 4.7 (77) $1399 ($7.52/Ounce) Save 10% with coupon. There was a problem subscribing you to this newsletter. Your name engraved. Clauss 10630 9" Curved Blade Shear, Blades Curve Right, Adjustable. Send me exclusive offers, unique gift ideas, and personalized tips for shopping and selling on Etsy. Sellers looking to grow their business and reach more interested buyers can use Etsys advertising platform to promote their items. (10% off), Sale Price 32.72 Read our Cookie Policy. He was not a surgeon but a researcher and medical investigator. I certainly dont lack in either. Also I cannot make out all of the markings on the scissors. Del Laboratories owns the division, which it integrated into its Sally Hansen line in 1994. Ive been able to find the scissors online, but not any that say New York Worlds Fair. I enjoyed seeing your scissor collection. xo Kathleen. They serve as a good example of what I call a hybrid scissor. Try using a different browser or disabling ad blockers. I have some sail maker shear 16 inches long and would like to have them restored but ~~~~goose eggs everywhere ! I have an old pair of small scissors marked Broadway Dept Stores with slogans Dont Worry and Watch Us Grow, and impressions of Washington and Lincoln. (4.8k) $28.00. This type of data sharing may be considered a sale of information under California privacy laws. Hi, very cool and informative site. Hi Larry. Original Price 3.65 Thanks so much for commenting and letting me know how much youre enjoying my blogthat means so much , I was hoping to find an embroidery scissors in your collection that would help me identify the pair I just inherited. Hello my name is Brandon I stumbled upon this site while trying to find the value of some ever sharp vintage scissors that I have that are engraved and have what seems to be a piece of plastic on the hinge screw that seems to also be made of brass Im going to leave my email if anyone could help me out and give me more information on these years that I have Ill send some pictures if you email me thanks for any information given appreciate it. It could work for other special collectibles, too , I have a few pairs I have from my grandfather (who came from Germany) and one in particular I cant even figure out what it is? Vintage 12" Clauss Scissors Chrome No. That means a lot Jo! 2 were here. The blades themselves are 12 so does that mean they are 12 shears? (10% off), Sale Price 2.26 I have framed several pair and sold them from my booth at the annual Christmas craft show I participate in every year. Found something you love but want to make it even more uniquely you? Etsys 100% renewable electricity commitment includes the electricity used by the data centers that host Etsy.com, the Sell on Etsy app, and the Etsy app, as well as the electricity that powers Etsys global offices and employees working remotely from home in the US. I am off and running to find my first pair of scissors or shears to begin my collection! Opens in a new window or tab. (15% off), Sale Price $22.45 Good news! Id love to see a photo of your collection some day Ruth , I might be the only Shear/scissor collector . I learned while preparing this post that scissors measuring 8 or more should technically be referred to as shears. Therefore, this blue handled pair are not scissors, they are shears. There was a problem subscribing you to this newsletter. To enable personalized advertising (like interest-based ads), we may share your data with our marketing and advertising partners using cookies and other technologies. (34) $193.00. I cant find any Forums or collector group anywhere on the net except this very fine site! Etsy uses cookies and similar technologies to give you a better experience, enabling things like: Detailed information can be found in Etsys Cookies & Similar Technologies Policy and our Privacy Policy. Can you help me figure out who made them? WASA refers to a particular company in Solingen that has been manufacturing scissors for at least a century.
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