A pair of assymetrical blades- one like a knife blade, the other with a blunt end. There is a pivot at the mid-section by a steel pin, on the gently arched handles, the one with a scrolled end.
scissors
steel (alloy)
Steel
SCISSORS
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
9 1/2 x 1 3/8 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1131
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