Edwardian Dixon Sheffield Shears

[Traintime]

Small gothic "o" in octagonal for 1906. All three parts have sterling standard lion. Appear to be grape shears, but seeking confirmation of box angle blade. TIA!

[Bahner]

Hello, would agree that this is most likely for grapes. Regards, Bahner

[Traintime]

Thank you Bahner. This seems to be the established concensus. To note, the actual cutting edge is only a small zone in towards the pivot point. Since you would not want to have to loose silver (filings) in a sharpening process, the edge appears to be self maintaining by reducing the gauge of metal (on the "L") as one moves inward from the nose/tip. Any filing or scraping would be confined to that cutting zone prior to final polishing, after which no work seems needed - tested, it sliced about 1/2" clean on paper. [Trev has a notes entry about the British attempt to recover from losing the blade (scissors, etc.) business to newer cost effective German practices around this era. It concerned actions by Sheffield makers.]