Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Simmons Pelican shears

 

Here is a nice shapely pair of shears made by E. C. Simmons. Buy them for the sculpture. 

E E Simmons has been making and sourcing scissors and shears since 1874, adopting the trademark Keen Kutter in the 1880's.  The company sold a full line of hardware including wood planes, more information here. It was acquired in 1940 by Shapleigh Hardware which closed up in 1960.



4 comments:

Anonymous said...

A wonderful bird is the pelican
Its beak can hold more than its belly can

D.

Anonymous said...

I must be watching the wrong movies because when I see these shears I immediately picture some mafioso extracting information and fingers from some poor sap.

ghostsniper said...

And I don't know how in the hell-i-can!

Dave said...

This is the working end of a pair of long-handled pruning shears with the wood handles missing, probably model AB S20 shown here:

https://ia903205.us.archive.org/BookReader/BookReaderImages.php?zip=/26/items/SimmonsKeenKutterCatalog1939Part/Simmons%20Keen%20Kutter%20Catalog%201939%20Part_jp2.zip&file=Simmons%20Keen%20Kutter%20Catalog%201939%20Part_jp2/Simmons%20Keen%20Kutter%20Catalog%201939%20Part_0416.jp2&id=SimmonsKeenKutterCatalog1939Part&scale=4&rotate=0