Scissors Collection (page 2)

Mstr Tape, Tailors Son
Master Tape the Tailors Son, from Happy Families devised in Britain by Mr Jacques in 1861 Date: 1861

LITTLE WOMEN / JO / HAIR CUT
Jo has all her hair cut off. Date: First published: 1868

Symbolic cutting of pigtails in Shanghai, China
At Shanghai, 500 young men voluntarily relinquish their traditional pigtails, symbolising the new spirit of China. Date: 1911

Tacuinum Sanitatis. Late XIV century. Tailor
Tacuinum Sanitatis. Medieval Health Handbook, dated before 1400, based on observations of medical order detailing the most important aspects of food, beverages and clothing. Tailor. Miniature. Fol

Anti-German cartoon, map of Europe, WW1
The tailors of strafe street. An anti-German cartoon showing the German Kaiser Wilhelm II and his son, Crown Prince Wilhelm, in a tailors shop during the First World War

Cartoon, The Censor at Work, WW1
Cartoon, The Censor at Work as he is seen by the Press, with a quotation from The Taming of the Shrew: Heres snip, and nip, and cut, and slish, and slash, Like to a censer in a barbers shop

Silhouette Artist Georg Schmidt
A fine silhouette of Silhouette Artist Georg Schmidt cutting a silhouette of a horse. circa 1830

RMS Titanic - nail scissors recovered by CS Mackay-Bennett
RMS Titanic - from inventory of items recovered from bodies by cable ship Mackay-Bennett - silver mounted steel nail scissors with rusted steel blades

Tradesman sharpening scissors on a Christmas card
Travelling tradesman sharpening scissors and other items on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Pair of scissors with comic verse on a New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Pair of scissors with comic verse on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

London Trade Card - John Brailsford, Cutler, St Martins Court, Leicester Fields. 18th century

Two Saints make shoes being tempted by the devil. Engraving

Scrap Book - Naval Cuttings. circa 1940s

Page from catalogue of Safety razors 1929
Safety razors, razor strop, stropping machine and assorted scissors set. Products available from the Harrods catalogue cutlery department. Date: 1929

Vidal Sassoon - British hairdresser
Vidal Sassoon (1928-2012), British hairdresser, businessman and philanthropist, is credited with creating the wedge bob. Date: 1966

Auguste Edouart cutting silhouette of Liston the actor
Portrait of the artist in the act of cutting the silhouette of John Liston, the actor, an example of the supreme mastery the silhouette artist Edouart had achieved by 1828 when this picture was cut

Cornish Grandmother repairs her Grandsons Clothing
No more Flora for you my Son!. A Cornish Grandmother takes her Grandson over her knee to repair his torn shorts, the result of too much enthusiastic running through the undergrowth

Census / 1901 / John Bull
John Bulls tailor measures him for a new suit - a satirical comment on a dramatic rise in population, as demonstrated by the 1901 Census

Charity beard trimming event, using a rather large pair of scissors. Date: circa 1980s

Advert for Mappin & Webb vanity items 1934
Mappin & Webb advertising a variety of items. 1934

Electro silver plated goods, Plate 222, including a range of cutlery, nutcrackers, cheese scoops, sandwich tongs and grape scissors. Date: circa 1880s

Iron tools. 11th-12th centuries
Iron tools. Scissors, key, knife, spoon auger, chisel, fishing spear and sickle. 11th-12th centuries. Neues Museum (New Museum). Berlin. Germany

The Annunciation, c. 1600, by El Greco
El Greco (1541-1614). Cretan painter. The Annunciation, c.1600. Museum of Fine Arts. Budapest. Hungary

Loom. 19th century. Hungary
Loom for making rugs for the dowry of Hungarian women. 19th century. Ethnographic Museum. Budapest. Hungary

Sharpener street. Colored engraving by E. Alba on a life drawing by D.F. Guisasola. 1879

Snap Playing Card - Scissors to Grind. circa 1900s

Kay Snap - Mr Trim the Hairdresser. 1930s

Happy Families Playing Cards - Mrs Jack Tar the Sailors Wife. late 19th century

Happy Familes Playing Cards - Master Pill. circa 1935

ASCOT PARTY GAME
Playing Ascot at a Christmas party. The horses have to cut down the centre of a piece of tape with curved nail scissors, the winner being the one to pass the post first! Date: 1930s

Barber at Work C1840
A barber at work on a young boys unruly hair. Date: circa 1840

Dress Maker 1804
A dress maker attends to her customer who is being fitted for a gown. Adjustments are made requiring a pair of scissors as the client admires the handiwork in the mirror. Date: 1804

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

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