Curved shears or scissors. Cannot make out the name either. What are they used for.

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

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

 I was thinking, poultry shears.

John Reynders Co                         
Look at pages 12-13 of this catalog     https://archive.org/details/illustratedcatal00reyn

Just for fun, read Paragraph 9 on the left-hand page.  Good business practices.

https://archive.org/stream/illustratedcatal00reyn#page/n5/mode/2up

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

OUCH!!! Thanks Amecks for your time researching. Bill, thanks for putting some skin in the game.