Featured Odd Scissors

I would think at sone stage these were garment scissors.
looking closely there are some tracing on the sides.
Any Ideas of the type of scissors and what the tracing was?

 

They're for gardening. This style is often used for pruning of bonsai.

 

Bakers is correct.

 

Secateurs.

 

I knew there was a fancier name for them.

 

Great, so we have Bonsai pruners by bakers?

 

Are they from the orient then do you think?

 

The chased name could be Chinese or Japanese.

 

Theses are usually Japanese, as is the art of Bonsai

 

'Bonsai' in Japan - 'penjing' in China...

~Cheryl

 

Not secateurs, those are spring loaded: I've at least six different pairs for different tasks! Often single blades which mett against a flat surface but some have a pair.

These were originally for bonsai but are often now sold as cut flower snippers. I have them as well.

 

From a 1920s retailer's catalog:



~Cheryl