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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DragonflyWink, post: 10566381, member: 111&quot;]Wonderful little dragons at the tip - you&#039;re fortunate to have such a beautiful heirloom.&nbsp; Personally, would think Norway likely for their origin, typical of their Dragestil design, but could also be another Scandinavian country, Germany also a possibility.&nbsp; The handles and sheath do look like they may be silver, and could be unmarked but I&#039;d look again, sometimes marks are quite small and easily missed.</p><p><br /></p><p>For clarity, provenance is the documented history of a specific piece, its ownership, whether receipts, inventories, estate records, appearance in family photographs, etc.&nbsp; Family histories aren&#039;t always accurate (sometimes they&#039;re just wrong), but would guess yours is probably true, with her likely acquisition of the scissors as an adult, and they might not have been new then.</p><p><br /></p><p>Enameled Norwegian silver scissors and sheath by David Andersen, shown in &#039;Miller&#039;s/Gaussen&#039;s &#039;Sewing Accessories&#039; (2001):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]530435[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>At far right, German bronze scissors and sheath, shown in Groves&#039; &#039;The History of Needlework&#039; (1966):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]530436[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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