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Large Victorian Box, Mahogany on Oak, England, circa 1840
Located in Regensburg, DE
scissors.
Restored and hand polished with shellac.
Dimensions: H 16 cm, W 36 cm, D 28 cm.
Category
1840s English Victorian Antique Scissors
Materials
Mahogany
George III Sterling Silver Chamber Stick
By Henry Chawner
Located in Brisbane City, QLD
compartment that would have originally held the accompanying 'snuff scissors', which have been lost to time
Category
Late 18th Century British George III Antique Scissors
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
19th Century Indian Folding Savonarola Armchair
Located in Petworth,West Sussex, GB
A very decorative and elaborate inlaid late 19th century folding scissors Savonarola armchair. With
Category
19th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Antique Scissors
Materials
Hardwood
$2,708 Sale Price
55% Off
French Nécessaire de Voyage
Located in New Orleans, LA
utensils. Beneath a tray of silver forks and spoons, one finds an array of items, from brushes and scissors
Category
Early 19th Century French Empire Antique Scissors
Materials
Crystal, Silver
$78,500
Interesting Old Print of Writing and Carpenter Utensils and More, 1810
Located in Langweer, NL
Untitled print of Anglo Saxon banquet, scissors, tongs, penknife, stylus, feather and inkwell
Category
1810s Antique Scissors
Materials
Paper
$246 Sale Price
20% Off
19th Century French Gold Mounted
Mother of Pearl Etui Set, c.1870
Located in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
gold and steel implements:, scissors, pen knife, thimble. Box bearing later hallmarks 585 gold and
Category
19th Century French Antique Scissors
Materials
Gold
Antique Medical Print
Pl. III
by D. Diderot, circa 1760
Located in Langweer, NL
Plate III: 'Chirurgie'. (Surgery.) This plate shows surgical instruments like scissors, speculum
Category
Mid-18th Century Antique Scissors
Materials
Paper
Antique Medical Print
Pl. XIX
by D. Diderot, circa 1760
Located in Langweer, NL
Plate XIX : 'Chirurgie'. (Surgery.) This plate shows surgical instruments / devices like scissors
Category
Mid-18th Century Antique Scissors
Materials
Paper
GEORG ADAM SCHEID 1900 Enameled Guilloche Etui Necessaire box In .800 Silver
By Georg Adam Scheid
Located in Miami, FL
notes, a folding scissors, a file, a plegable blade with its fitting and a hook.
Etuis
These objects
Category
Early 1900s Austrian Edwardian Antique Scissors
Materials
Silver, Enamel
$6,280 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Mid-19th Century Wood and Ceramic Lemon Squeezer
Located in Godshill, Isle of Wight
scissors
The squeezer is 10” long when closed and 3.5” wide
EB36.
Category
Mid-19th Century Victorian Antique Scissors
Materials
Wood
Sewing Box in Rosewood Veneer, Gold and Silver, Restoration Period
Located in Paris, FR
mounted punch and a pair of small embroidery scissors. The different tools are engraved with the master
Category
19th Century French Restauration Antique Scissors
Materials
Gold, Silver
Pair of Renaissance Style Gilded
Enameled Glass Vases, Europe, 19th Century
Located in Chatham, ON
- each signed with a hand painted 'scissors or shears' symbol (unknown/unidentified maker) and numbered
Category
19th Century European Renaissance Revival Antique Scissors
Materials
Enamel, Gold Leaf
Antique Coloured Print of Various Utensils, 1810
Located in Langweer, NL
Untitled print of Anglo Saxon banquet scissors tongs penknife stylus feather and inkwell small
Category
19th Century Antique Scissors
Materials
Paper
$246 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique Shirvan Prayer Rug
Located in New York, NY
of colors and variation in design including some very charming personal details: note the scissors
Category
19th Century Azerbaijani Antique Scissors
Vintage Moroccan Rug Azilal Tribe Atlas Collection
Located in WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA
it extraordinary. It features scissors and lozenges with extended sides with the color combinations
Category
Early 20th Century Moroccan Antique Scissors
Materials
Wool
Austrian Orientalist Cold-Painted Bronze Lamp of a Shoe Cobbler
Located in London, GB
elements. The wall is decorated with a large pair of scissors, a tool often used by shoe cobblers.
In the
Category
Early 20th Century Austrian Islamic Antique Scissors
Materials
Bronze
Tunbridge Ware - A Fine Sewing Box with Isometric Cubes, c1850
By Edmund Nye Tunbridge Wells
Located in Tunbridge Wells, GB
having been made in the workshops of Edmund Nye; the 'tool cushion' holds tweezers, scissors, a bodkin
Category
19th Century English Victorian Antique Scissors
Materials
Oak
Silver toiletries Set, Birmingham, Levi
Salaman, circa Early 20th Century
By Levi
Salaman
Located in Madrid, ES
With hallmarks.
Set of toilet elements composed of two brushes, comb, scissors, tweezers, and
Category
Early 20th Century British Other Antique Scissors
Materials
Silver
Antique Brass Betel Nut Cutter from India Collectible Asian Mughal Artifact
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
blend of scissors and nutcrackers, used to carve delicate shavings from the areca (betel) nut.
These
Category
Late 19th Century Indian Folk Art Antique Scissors
Materials
Bronze
Antique Solid Silver Sugar Tongs/Nips/Tea Tongs Naturalistic, Francis Higgings
By Francis Higgins
Located in London, GB
functions in a similar manner to scissors whereby the user will 'pinch' some sugar (or cubes nowadays) to
Category
19th Century English Victorian Antique Scissors
Materials
Sterling Silver
Pair of Italian Antique Brass Lucerna Four Spout Oil Lamps
Located in Forney, TX
having a set of tools attached by chain, one with wick trimmer scissors, poker and flame snuff, the other
Category
Early 19th Century Italian Antique Scissors
Materials
Brass
Victorian Mappin
Webb Antique Silver Coromandel Vanity / Dressing Box
By James Vickery, Mappin
Webb
Located in Northampton, GB
handled tools including a shoehorn, penknife, thread hook, scissors, tweezers, file, needle and pricker
Category
19th Century British Antique Scissors
Materials
Brass
Bracelet Brooch Earrings Set Gold 585 Opals Freshwater Pearls Rubies, circa 1880
Located in Vienna, AT
elegant bracelet is of stretching type: It is a wristband which can be widened like scissors / shears so
Category
1880s Austrian High Victorian Antique Scissors
Materials
Opal, Freshwater Pearl, Ruby, 14k Gold, Gold
Exquisite Early Victorian Silver Plate Flatware Set for Dessert, Fruit and Nuts
By Sheffield Silver Co.
Located in New York, NY
forks, 12 knives, two nut crackers, two nut picks, fruit scissors, two berry spoons and a large carving
Category
1850s English Early Victorian Antique Scissors
Materials
Silver Plate
Rare 1923 Harrods London Sterling Silver Vanity Manicure Nail Kit Set Suite
By Harrods
Located in GB
for sterling, the Anchor for Birmingham and the date letter Y for 1923
The scissors or stainless
Category
1920s British Art Deco Antique Scissors
Materials
Sterling Silver
$437 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique Indian Mughal Brass Betel Nut Cutters with Dragon Motif Areca nut Cutter
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
Cutter.
This unique tool is a blend of scissors and nutcrackers, used to carve delicate shavings from the
Category
Late 19th Century Indian Islamic Antique Scissors
Materials
Brass, Bronze
Antique Original Painted "the Patient Safety Ladder Company" Decorators Ladder
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
steps
This one can be used by extending it upwards, it can also open in the normal scissors function
Category
1910s English Edwardian Antique Scissors
Materials
Pine
Georgian Rosewood Vanity Box
By Howell James
Co.
Located in Northampton, GB
nail file, a button hook, a pricker, two pairs of scissors (larger is a period replacement), a
Category
Early 19th Century English William IV Antique Scissors
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
Set of Four Italian Walnut Savonarola Armchairs
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
with four trunnions to close as scissors. The central dowel at the intersection of the X branches allow
Category
16th Century Italian Renaissance Antique Scissors
Materials
Walnut
$118,656 / set
Case with Utensils, 19th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
(a small bottle of perfumes, scissors, a thimble ...) , with a space designed for each of these
Category
19th Century European Neoclassical Antique Scissors
Materials
Metal, Other
"Mlle Landsberg" (grade planche, pl. 16)
By Henri Matisse
Located in Missouri, MO
scissors, raising color to an emotional level and simplifying forms to a childish simplicity. While he
Category
1910s Fauvist Antique Scissors
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Brass Indian Betel Nut Cutter Collectible Asian Mughal Antique Artifact 19th C.
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
, combining elements of scissors and nutcrackers, was traditionally used to delicately carve shavings from the
Category
Late 19th Century Indian Islamic Antique Scissors
Materials
Bronze
Very fine and large KPM porcelain plaque of The Three Fates
By KPM Porcelain
Located in London, GB
on the left, holding a pair of scissors as she cuts a thread. Lachesis, to the right, and age-wise
Category
Early 20th Century German Classical Greek Antique Scissors
Materials
Porcelain, Wood
Lovely Victorian Sterling Chatelaine
Located in New York, NY
), retractable pencil, rose decorated mirror, pen knife with scissors/blades and an engraved whistle.
In the 19th
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Late 19th Century American Arts and Crafts Antique Scissors
19th Century French Rosewood Travel Vanity Case by Peret and Dated 1855
Located in Dallas, TX
necessary for manicure, pedicure, hair cutting and removal, beard trimming, nail cutting, two scissors
Category
Mid-19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Scissors
Materials
Silver
Betsy Ross
By Dean Cornwell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
, demonstrating her technique with a single cut of her scissors. The design was amended, and Ross purportedly made
Category
Early 20th Century Antique Scissors
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$55,000
Fannière Freres Paris 1880 Rare Etruscan Bacchus Brooch 18Kt Gold Lapis Lazuli
By Fannière Frères
Located in Miami, FL
draftsmen, sculptors, scissors and manufacturers; they worked for the main Paris’s goldsmiths. Auguste also
Category
1880s French Etruscan Revival Antique Scissors
Materials
Lapis Lazuli, Gold, 18k Gold, Yellow Gold
$3,960 Sale Price
20% Off
Victorian Coromandel Vanity Box Glyn Cywarch Estate
By James Vickery, Henry Lewis
Located in Northampton, GB
accoutrements including three pairs of scissors, silver corkscrew and a Mother of Pearl hand mirror. The middle
Category
Mid-19th Century British Victorian Antique Scissors
Materials
Multi-gemstone, Silver, Brass
Art Deco Ladies Traveling Necessaire Ensemble, American, circa 1925
Located in Incline Village, NV
small pair of scissors (5" long)
large nail file ( 7 1/2" long)
medium sized tray (10 3/4" long)
nail
Category
1920s American Art Deco Antique Scissors
Materials
Resin, Bakelite
Antique Bronze Indian Betel Nut Cutters Radha and Krishna 19th Century
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
special type of scissors was developed to cut the dried berry.Portuguese traders began importing betel
Category
Late 19th Century Indian Anglo Raj Antique Scissors
Materials
Brass
Pair of George IV Silver Grape Scissors
Located in London, GB
A pair of George IV silver grape scissors, with cast grape and vine handles, 19cms long, hallmarked
Category
1820s British George IV Antique Scissors
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
American Federal Silhouettes of Livingston Family Members
Located in New York, NY
Snipping a profile from paper with scissors, and mounting the result to a contrasting sheet of
Category
1830s American Federal Antique Scissors
Materials
Paper
19th Century Pair of Carved Walnut Folding Scissors Savonarola Bench or Settle
Located in Miami, FL
19th century carved walnut folding scissors Savonarola bench or settee featuring a lion shield in
Category
Mid-19th Century Italian Baroque Antique Scissors
Materials
Walnut
19th Century Pair of Carved Walnut Folding Scissors Savonarola Bench or Settle
Located in Miami, FL
19th century carved walnut folding scissors Savonarola bench or settee featuring a gentleman in the
Category
Mid-19th Century Italian Baroque Antique Scissors
Materials
Walnut
Large Scissors Shop Sign
Located in New York, NY
An amazing large-scale Chinese shop sign, 19th century, with calligraphy, and scissors in gold on
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Scissors
$2,350
Tailors Trade Sign of Scissors
Located in Stamford, CT
Circa late 19th to early 20th century Tailor's brass trade sign in the shape of scissors. The piece
Category
Late 19th Century American Industrial Antique Scissors
Materials
Brass
Metal Spike Lamps Tray Without Scissors
Located in Lisboa, Lisboa
A stylish metal tray designed for spike lamps, featuring decorative leaf reliefs that add a touch of elegance. The tray is supported on four sturdy feet, ensuring stability and funct...
Category
Late 19th Century Portuguese Baroque Antique Scissors
Materials
Metal
19th Century English Antique Silver Grape Scissors
Located in London, London
Antique silver grape scissors, made in 1870.
Category
1870s English Antique Scissors
Materials
Silver
Late 19th Century Ruby Diamond Silver Gold Scissors Brooch
Located in Lisbon, PT
Shaped like a pair of scissors, this silver and gold brooch is encrusted with rose-cut diamonds and
Category
Late 19th Century British Victorian Antique Scissors
Materials
Diamond, Ruby, Gold, Silver
English Sterling Silver GRAPE SHEARS or SCISSORS Marked:-Sheffield 1904
By William Hutton
Sons
Located in York, GB
A superb pair of Grape Scissors or shears, made in a variation of Kings shape. Distinctly raised
Category
Early 1900s English Edwardian Antique Scissors
Materials
Sterling Silver
Rare Pair of Charles I Silver Scissors, England circa 1635-1640
Located in Bewdley, Worcestershire
An Extremely rare Charles I Silver Pair of Scissors, circa 1635-1640; one of the earliest recorded
Category
18th Century and Earlier British Antique Scissors
Pair of Antique Victorian Cast Silver Stork Grape Scissors Joseph Willmore, 1839
By Joseph Willmore
Located in Sittingbourne, Kent
A pair of fine quality and unusual early Victorian cast silver grape scissors, made in the form of
Category
1830s English Victorian Antique Scissors
Materials
Silver
Rare 6 Piece Writing Desk Set Erhard
Sohne Wood Inlay Brass Art Nouveau 1900
By Erhard
Söhne
Located in Nierstein am Rhein, DE
including pen tray with inkwell, match, letter and notepad holder, cord dispenser with small scissors and a
Category
Early 1900s German Jugendstil Antique Scissors
Materials
Brass
Sterling Silver OLD ENGLISH PATTERN - GRAPE SHEARS - Hallmarked:- Sheffield 1930
By William Hutton
Sons
Located in York, GB
A superb pair of Grape Scissors or shears, made in the most sought after Old English pattern.
Used
Category
Early 20th Century English Other Antique Scissors
Materials
Silver
Georgian Silver Plated Chamber Stick
Located in Mississauga, ON
An English, Georgian silver plated chamber stick with snuffer.
Missing scissors.
Category
Early 19th Century English George III Antique Scissors
Materials
Sheffield Plate
Victorian Writing Box by P&F Shafer of 27 Piccadilly London
Located in London, Greenwich
, various compartments and sprung correspondence holder with scissors, letter opener and loops for pens
Category
1850s British Early Victorian Antique Scissors
Materials
Leather
Pair Signed Erhard Sohne Trinket Casket Box Casket Original Keys Brass Wood 1900
By Erhard
Söhne
Located in Nierstein am Rhein, DE
holder, cord dispenser with small scissors and a large scissors with sheath, all by Erhard & Söhne in our
Category
Early 1900s German Jugendstil Antique Scissors
Materials
Brass
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There is a range of antique scissors for sale on 1stDibs. The range of distinct antique scissors — often made from metal, silver and wood — can elevate any home. There are all kinds of antique scissors available, from those produced as long ago as the 18th Century to those made as recently as the 20th Century. Victorian, Baroque and Georgian antique scissors are consistently popular styles. Many antique scissors are appealing in their simplicity, but James Wakely
Frank Clarke Wheeler, Charles Rawlings and Edward Hutton produced popular antique scissors that are worth a look.
How Much are Antique Scissors?
Antique scissors can differ in price owing to various characteristics — the average selling price at 1stDibs is $873, while the lowest priced sells for $71 and the highest can go for as much as $16,371.
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