Scissors Collection (page 4)

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

Little Barber by Muriel Dawson
A scene no doubt familiar to many parents; a tiny little girl finds a pair of scissors in a bedroom and decides to cut her own hair

Examining fraudulent financial documentation - cheques and credit cards are checked for authenticity by the Metropolitan Police force

Young boy having a haircut
A young boy having a haircut. He looks up in mock horror as the scissors begin to cut across his nice blond fringe

Eleanor Lansing Thomas, social secretary to US Secretary of
Eleanor Lansing Thomas, social secretary to Mr John Foster Dulles, US Secretary of State in 1954 pictured going through press cuttings

Life / Fashion, shorter skirts 1924
A young female dress maker holding a measure and a pair of scissors, kneels upon a foot stall. Skirts will be shorter this fall

That Queer Censation
The staff of a Fleet Street newspaper or magazine, feel the pressure of work as the spectre of a censor brandishing scissors looms over them during World War One

Shop Assistant 1883
A shop-girl

Small boy having a haircut
A boy squeals as a pair of scissors is applied to his fringe - the horrors of a home haircut!

Yorick & the Grisette
LAURENCE STERNE Sternes alter ego Yorick in his novel, Sentimental Journey, in his encounter with the Grisette

Dryden / Fashion Ad / 91
Advertisement portraying a lady, very much resembling Hello, cutting the fashions of the field

Symbolic cutting of pigtails in Shanghai, China
At Shanghai, 500 young men voluntarily relinquish their traditional pigtails, symbolising a new modernising spirit in China

Caxton / Third Pawn
THE THIRD PAWN - who stands before the Bishop and represents a clerk

Paquin / Couturier / Fantasi
PAQUIN Prince of the French couturiers

Shoemaker / 1647 / Broadside
A shoemaker. These tradesman are preachers in the City of London, 1647. A satirical broadside on non- conformist preaching in London

Knife Grinder in Paris
A man grinding knives and scissors in Paris

Knife Grinder in London
Knives and scissors to grind? : a knife grinder hard at work in a London street sharpening a cleaver for a customer

Fashions of 1814
Three women in walking dress from 1814. One lady holds a pair of scissors - perhaps her outfit is all her own work?

Tailor Measuring / 1770
A tailor measures the length of a gentlemans coat with a tape measure while his colleagues sew; the cat is very interested in a plate of fish brought in by a boy

Receipt / March Finchley
The subscription ticket for the March to Finchley

French Censor
LE CENSEUR

Alcott / Women - 18
Jos sacrifice : she has her hair cut short

Scissors to Grind
Mr J Lee pushes his barrow through the London streets, offering to sharpen your scissors and all kinds of cutlery

Pyne - Knife Grinder
THE KNIFE GRINDER trundles his wheel from street to street, calling out to housewives and servants to bring out their knives and scissors for him to sharpen

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