additional information on folding scissors
I was doing a search and found an advertistement in _Scientific American_ Sept. 9, 1876. "Novel Folding Scissors. Many travelers who return from abroad bring home to their friends, as a novelty, a pair of folding scissors. But travelers can no longer astonish their friends with this novelty, for Marx Brothers, of 430 Broadway, New York City, are manufacturing, under patent issued May 28, 1872, a superior quality of folding scissors, which are five inches long when in use, but fold into a length to two and a half inches for the pocket, highly finished and neatly put up in leather cases, which they offer in competition with the imported articles."
This seems to indicate that even as late as 1876 the folding scissors were a novelty and not something that was commonly available for the average person to purchase. The small scissors commonly sold in the US probably would have been included in CW housewives rather than the rarer folding ones.
Originally posted by VIrginia Mescher
This seems to indicate that even as late as 1876 the folding scissors were a novelty and not something that was commonly available for the average person to purchase. The small scissors commonly sold in the US probably would have been included in CW housewives rather than the rarer folding ones.
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