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What's-It Forum => What's-It Forum => Topic started by: lebaron on January 19, 2018, 08:57:09 AM

Title: What were these shears used for
Post by: lebaron on January 19, 2018, 08:57:09 AM

What were these shears used for. Also I can't make out the name except New York.

Title: Re: What were these shears used for
Post by: bill300d on January 19, 2018, 11:09:25 AM

By the looks of those I'm not so sure you really want to know.

Title: Re: What were these shears used for
Post by: oldgoaly on January 19, 2018, 01:43:17 PM

Veterinary? or Medical?

Title: Re: What were these shears used for
Post by: p_toad on January 19, 2018, 04:43:46 PM

ouch.   reminds me of these.

Also, a little more light shadow across that name may help us make out who made it. 

Title: Re: What were these shears used for
Post by: Plyerman on January 19, 2018, 04:48:31 PM

Oh Lordy! What do they mean Use with a standard 3/8" variable speed cordless drill?!! :shocked:

Wait, don't tell me!

Title: Re: What were these shears used for
Post by: lebaron on January 20, 2018, 04:48:06 AM

Hope this helps. Cleaned it up a little. It cuts through heavy cardboard pretty good. Can't get a volunteer for the jewels.

Title: Re: What were these shears used for
Post by: lptools on January 20, 2018, 07:11:43 AM

Hello, Lebaron. I took a guess at Reynders, and came up with the following;

John Reynders & Co. (John and Charles Reynders; John Reynders sells to Charles Reynders and William Harz) surgical, veterinary, and orthopedical instruments; skeletons and anatomi­cal preparations
1879-82: 303 Fourth av
1883-85: 303 Fourth av and 164 W. 27th
1886-1900: 303 Fourth av and 314 E. 22d
Source: American Surgical Instruments: American Surgical Instruments: An Illustrated History of their Manufacture and a Directory of Instrument Makers to 1900 by James M. Edmonson, Ph.D., Curator, Dittrick Museum of Medical History, Cleveland Medical Library Association and Case Western Reserve University.

Regards, Lou

Title: Re: What were these shears used for
Post by: turnnut on January 20, 2018, 09:03:42 AM

good research work Lou.

Title: Re: What were these shears used for
Post by: lptools on January 20, 2018, 04:27:50 PM

Hello, Frank. Thanks!! Lebaron, Does this look like the one you have?/ From a reprint of the 1897 Sears Roebuck Catalog, under Veterinary Instruments, page 31.Regards, Lou

Title: Re: What were these shears used for
Post by: Plyerman on January 20, 2018, 04:56:41 PM

Hmm. Some new words I don't recognize in that catalog. But I'm not going to look them up...

Title: Re: What were these shears used for
Post by: Yadda on January 20, 2018, 09:02:35 PM

Ouch!

Title: Re: What were these shears used for
Post by: lebaron on January 21, 2018, 07:34:38 AM

LP, great job. I looked through thousands of pics and came up empty. They look the same except for the bow on the shaft. Thanks, everybody for trying to figure it out. LP your the best.

BTW I watched the video of the Henderson castrating tool because I couldn't understand the use of the power drill. Fascinating. I don't know if you can watch it without squirming.

Title: Re: What were these shears used for
Post by: john k on January 22, 2018, 03:58:37 AM

A good many medical instruments have the rings cast on, makes it easier to dip them into sterilizing solution, or boiling water.  Never seen a pair of these.

Title: Re: What were these shears used for
Post by: Chillylulu on January 27, 2018, 09:50:54 AM

My grandmother (who lived with us while I was growing up) was an AORT.  Basically she was an operating room nurse. 

She brought home all kinds of scissors,  clamps, etc. that were decommissioned.   Scissors like those were common.

This was in the 70's.   So I would guess they are medical or veterinary.

Chilly