Étui scissors with pointed blades and folding handles.
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Overview

Cleveland dates these English gilt-metal scissors to about 1770. They belong to étui set 1916.313, with miniature personal implements. The museum connects such waist-hung cases with privileged dress and links this set’s luxury to enslaved or indentured labour within its production system.

They entered Cleveland as a gift of Jeptha Homer Wade II and Ellen Garretson Wade. The maker and earlier ownership are unrecorded.

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Maker unrecorded.

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    Cleveland Museum of Art online catalogue: Scissors (1916.313.a)

    Cleveland Museum of Art

    Undated online record; manufacture date and catalogue update timestamps are separate.

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  1. Primary institutional object recordScissors — Cleveland Museum of Art 1916.313.aResearch access: 2026-10-21

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