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Scissors

Scope note

Cutting tools consisting of two bevel-edged cutting blades with handles and being movable past one another on a pivot in the center by which they are held together. W

This term has 1 records attributed within our system.

Term type

AAT
Object name

Getty AAT term number

300023459

Broader Terms used

<cutting tools>

Created

13yrs ago

Connected records

An image of Figure

A knife seller

Maker(s)

Factory: Meissen Porcelain Factory
Modeller: Reinicke, Peter (Possibly)
Modeller: Kändler, Johann Joachim (Probably)

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