Scissors Collection (#3)

Super Dressing Case
Elegant - some would say, over-the-top - dressing case by Aspreys of London Date: 1861

TAILOR 1827
A tailor cuts a piece of fabric with scissors while his two female employees take a customers measurements in the background. Date: 1827

Elephant writing a greeting on a New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Three rabbits having a trim on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Two turkeys and a goose on a Christmas card
Two turkeys and a goose at the wolf hairdressers on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Anglo Saxon banquet and tools.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalarts Historical Picture of the Costumes of the Principal People of Antiquity and of the Middle Ages. 1798

Surgical equipment for the extraction of a cataract.. Surgical equipment for the extraction of the cataract and for the Fistula Lachrymalis: minute steel tenaculum, Clines instrument, scissors

Surgical equipment including probes, catheters and scissors.. Surgical equipment including spatula, eye probe, caustic case, probe, director, pocket tenaculum, male and female catheters, needles

Silhouette of two children with cutout toys by H.L. Oakley. Date: circa 1930s

Silhouette of H. L. Oakley as a schoolboy
Silhouette of H.L. Oakley as a schoolboy, doing cutout portraits of his teachers and schoolfriends, for which he was awarded a bronze star by the Royal Drawing Society

Street cutler
Knives and scissors to grind. Street cutler. From Old London Cries (1885) Date: 1885

Anti-Suffrage Army of Militants. Extreme German view of the English Army of Militant Suffragettes with their weapons of war - bombs, guns, axes, acid and scissors. Date: circa 1913

Making a silhouette: a fairground silhouettist
A side show at Shepherds Bush - a silhouette artist at the Anglo-American Exhibition at White City demonstrates his art by cutting a portrait of a seated woman while a crowd at his studio entrance to

Cartoon, Coiffure in the Trenches, WW1
Cartoon, Coiffure in the Trenches. Keep yer ead still, or I ll ave yer blinkin ear off. By Captain Bruce Bairnsfather, 1st Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment (1888-1959)

WW2 poster, cut this out of working hours (petty jealousies, bickering), remember its the enemy you re fighting! Design by Victor Hicks. Date: 1940s

Snipped by the Scissors by H. L. Oakley
In the rear of the Victory March - A few notes from a sketch book at the back of our rapidly moving front. Silhouettes cut from sketches taken during the Battle of Albert in August 1918. Date: 1918

Mans best friend... by H. L. Oakley
A series of silhouettes by H. L. Oakley depicting various hunting scenes. Date: 1943

Bonzo Suffers From Overwork by George Studdy
Bonzo Suffers From Overwork. He is fast asleep after a rummage through his mistresss sewing basket. Date: 1923

Snipped by the Scissors, WW1 silhouettes by H. L. Oakley
In the rear of the victory march - a few scenes from the back of the rapidly marching British front towards the end of the First World War, cut in silhouette by Captain H. L. Oakley. Date: 1918

H. L. Oakley cutting a silhouette
Harry Lawrence Oakley (1882-1960), silhouette artist, pictured in his studio on the pier at Llandudno. Oakley, whose silhouettes were in demand for posters, magazines illustrations and advertising

H. L. Oakley at Llandudno
Harry Lawrence Oakley (1882-1960), silhouette artist, pictured in his studio on the pier at Llandudno, in the middle of cutting a picture

H. L. Oakley at Llandudno taking a portrait
The silhouette artist, Harry Lawrence Oakley (1882 - 1960), pictured cutting a portrait in his studio at at Llandudno during the 1920s

Advert for John Pound & Co dressing case 1914
Advertisement John Pound & Co dressing cases. John Pound became Lord Mayor of London in 1904. With less time to run his business, he gave contol of the company to his two sons

Nursery Rhyme -- The Carrion Crow. A tailor sits sewing, and is irritated by a carrion crow making a noise in a tree. He aims at the crow with his crossbow

Nursery Rhymes -- cutting skirt, mouse-drawn cart
Nursery Rhymes -- two illustrations. Above -- There was an old woman, as I ve heard tell, she went to market her eggs for to sell; she went to market all on a market day

Mother Goose illustration -- There was an old woman, as I ve heard tell, she went to market her eggs for to sell... and she fell asleep upon the Kings Highway

Advert by Asprey compact dressing case 1937
Cases for light weight travel complete and compact. Date: 1937

Arthur James Balfour has hands cut off by Joseph Chamberlain
The Story of the Pushful One (cont.). Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl Balfour (1848-1930) - Prime Minister (1902-05) has his hands cut off by Pushful Joe Joseph Chamberlain (1836-1914). Date: 1899

A Street Hardware Stall, Japan - selling a wide array of goods including scissors, tongs, trowels, pans, hinges and metal rods. Date: circa 1910s

Venice (18th c. ). Mask maker. Miniature Painting
Venice (18th c.). Mask maker. Miniature Painting. ITALY. Venice. Museo Correr

Filippo Buonaccorsi
FILIPPO CALLIMACO BUONACCORSI Italian historian, depicted at his writing desk, scissors, inkwell and all - a delightful glimpse of a 15th century writer at work. Date: CIRCA 1437 - 1496

Sterne Yorick Illus
LAURENCE STERNE Sternes alter ego Yorick in his novel, Sentimental Journey, in his encounter with the Grisette Date: 1713-1768

Surgery scissors and lancet. Date 1878?

H. L. Oakley cutting a portrait in his studio
Silhouette artist, Harry Lawrence Oakley, known as H. L. Oakley pictured cutting the portrait of a young woman in a cloche hat and fur stole in a studio

Scissors and Pendulum - Exercise regime for 1927
Images illustrating two exercises, the Scissors and the Pendulum designed to keep the figure neat and trim for 1920s ladies. Date: 1927

Silhouette portrait of H. L. Oakley cutting a silhouette por
Stunning self-portrait silhouette of the artist H. L. Oakley cutting the silhouette of a little girl, who stands on a small table. Date: 1920s

Nail trimmers, scissors, pen knives & buffing block, from thes Maw & Sons catalogue Date: 1903

Silhouette artist cutting a childs portrait

Silhouettes of traditional Christmas scenes in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, cut by H. L. Oakley with his magic scissors

She didn t know what to do
There was an old woman who lived in a shoe, she had so many children, she didn t know what to do -- an illustration to the nursery rhyme, showing the old woman not knowing where to start

Dunderpate speaks to the tailor about marrying his daughter, but the tailor doesn t like the idea of making him free clothes for the rest of his life. Date: 1938

Advert for Mappin & Webb compact dressing case 1937
Advertisement for Mappin & Webb compact dressing cases: Including Ladys Morocco leather dressing case, containing a lift out tray

Japan - Geisha girls mock fighting
Japan - Geisha girls at play. They may be either mock fighting (the geisha on the left appears to have balled fists) or possibly playing scissors-paper-rock, which originated in Japan

Dunderpate and his mother with the darning
Dunderpate and his mother at home -- she is doing some darning and mending. He tells her what his teacher said: if I can find him a bigger dunce than myself he ll change places with me! Date: 1938

Knives and Scissors to Grind Oh
Old Street Cries -- Knives and Scissors to Grind Oh!! 20th century

Surgery on a North African lady
European surgeons operate on a North African lady. Date: circa 1930s

Surgeon 1930S
A surgeon cuts the surgical wire with his scissors following a successful operation. Date: 1930s

Origin Species, CH Bennett, man on holiday - cock
Cock-a-doodle-do. Satire on Darwins Origin of Species showing the evolution of man on holiday from a cock. His nose is a beak, his beard once a cox comb

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