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Dear All,
I'm starting a strage kind of collection and I would like to know something about the most renowned brands of tailor's scissors to collect.
Many Thanks.
All Best,
Andreas

Check out Thomas Mahon's scissors; he has quite a story http://www.englishcut.com/archives/000014.html.

I'm sure he'd be willing to share some advice on scissors.

Cordovan

Thanks Cordovan,

I'll contact him and ask for some info.
In the meantime I just bought an excellent Wilkinson & Son from Sheffiled:

I must admit, when I visited Oxxford and saw some of the shears, that the tailor had bought from his mentor, making them as old as I am, looked really nice.
Good luck building a nice collection.

From my own experience I can tell that there are only a few famous brands to look for.
Most US shears came from Newark, New Jersey. They are all similar in shape and the most renown are:

WISS & Sons
R. Heinisch (Inventor)
Equity

In Germany were: Kissner, Gross Umstadt and of course Zwilling, Solingen. Plus a few others like Rich. A. Herder(Solingen)
In France shears came mainly from Nogent, mostly in only a few shapes(still available today)
In the UK most famous is Wilkinson & Sons, Sheffield(the only company still making 13" shears).
Here is a picture of my "collection"! They are all! in good to excellent working condition!


Here is a picture of the largest ones I have:


They are from the manufacturers mentioned above:
Left to right: R. Heinisch, Wilkinson, Nogent and Kissner.

Found them all on Ebay in UK, US ,France and Germany.

SG

Martin Stall uses bespoke shears!

http://www.martinstall.com/index.php?op ... d=88888917

--Andre

Dear Schneidergott,

many thanks for posting your fabulous collection.
Now that I have your precious info you'll find me bidding on ebay, hoping not against you;-)
There seems not to be many collectors around...I saw the prices are still very reasonable.

All Best,
Andreas