Button-hole scissors, Hancock, MA

ca. 1852

Object ID:

1957.8647.1

Community:

Massachusetts, Hancock

Description

Steel buttonhole scissors with polished steel cutting blade, flared finger holes, and japanned handles. Brass anvil and adjustment screw are missing. One side of jaw where anvil is missing is calibrated to one end of the non-existent anvil.

Massachusetts Hancock

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