Shears And Scissors

A 1908 magazine ad for dressmaking shears. Shows a pretty woman sewing. Measures 2 1/2" by 5 3/4".

An early ad for pinking shears in the October 1935 Good Housekeeping issue.

An ad for pinking shears in the October 1948 Good Housekeeping issue.

An ad for a variety of sewing shears and scissors in the May 1951 Good Housekeeping issue.

An ad for dressmaker shears, plus a variety of other shears and scissors in the April 1953 Good Housekeeping issue.

An ad for pinking shears in the May 1954 Good Housekeeping issue.

An ad for a variety of shears and scissors in the October 1955 Good Housekeeping issue.

An ad for dressmaker shears in the May 1957 Good Housekeeping issue.

May 1976 Good Housekeeping ad announcing that Contura-lite Shears are now in tortoise-shell.

Gift Sets

A Wiss Gift Sets ad that appeared in the December 1947 issue of Holiday magazine.

A Wiss Gift Sets ad that appeared in the December 1949 issue of Holiday magazine.

Garden Tools

A 1929 ad from Better Homes & Garden for Wiss Hedge Shears

A Wiss garden shears ad from a 1941 issue of The Saturday Evening Post. There is a pretty woman with the copy "Built for HE-MEN... but Smooth Enough for the Ladies".

A Garden Cutting Tools Ad Hedge Grass Pruning ad from the April 29, 1950 issue of The Saturday Evening Post.

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