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What's-It Forum => What's-It Forum => Topic started by: lebaron on December 07, 2016, 09:06:16 AM

Title: What are these for?
Post by: lebaron on December 07, 2016, 09:06:16 AM
Curved shears or scissors. Cannot make out the name either. What are they used for.
Title: Re: What are these for?
Post by: amecks on December 07, 2016, 09:39:33 AM
I tried googling and ebay for possible different letter combinations.  The only combo that returned results was PEYNDERS.  That appears to be a persons name - where the other combos of Y,X orV; A or N; and D or G returned nothing.
Maybe that will help track further?
Al
Title: Re: What are these for?
Post by: amecks on December 07, 2016, 10:00:17 AM
The link on google was the below gravesite reference.  It mentions a John Peynders.  The problem is that there are at least 3 Oak Hill Cemeteries in NY.  Find the one that used to be named Valley City (and there is no town in the state named Valley City).

Valley City Cemetery --
Now the southern section of Oak Hill Cemetery.

Peynders, Maria
     b.1824; d.1893; on stone with Peter;
     on lot with John and Anna

Peynders, Peter
     b.1827; d.1885
Title: Re: What are these for?
Post by: turnnut on December 07, 2016, 10:03:17 AM
 I was thinking, poultry shears.
Title: Re: What are these for?
Post by: bill300d on December 07, 2016, 10:46:16 AM
John Reynders Co                         
Look at pages 12-13 of this catalog     https://archive.org/details/illustratedcatal00reyn (https://archive.org/details/illustratedcatal00reyn)
Title: Re: What are these for?
Post by: Northwoods on December 07, 2016, 12:11:14 PM
Just for fun, read Paragraph 9 on the left-hand page.  Good business practices.

https://archive.org/stream/illustratedcatal00reyn#page/n5/mode/2up
Title: Re: What are these for?
Post by: amecks on December 07, 2016, 12:27:57 PM
Nice work!  It's an R not a P,  Doh!
I hate when these things turn out to be dental or veterinary tools. Creepy.
Al
Title: Re: What are these for?
Post by: lebaron on December 07, 2016, 01:29:33 PM
OUCH!!! Thanks Amecks for your time researching. Bill, thanks for putting some skin in the game.