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  • Iron Age Scissors, Dechelette, Manuel d'Archeologie
  • Ancient Hindu scissors.
  • Skin-grafting scissors
  • Obstetrics, Simpson's osteomes or scissors.
  • Various instruments, including scissors, files, cannulae
  • Obstetrics, Barnes, A modified pair of scissors.
  • M0008253: Woodcut of surgical scissors and razors
  • A man sharpens scissors on a grinding wheel. Coloured engraving.
  • Bookbinding: knives, scissors, clamps, etc. Engraving by Benard after Lucotte.
  • Surgical instruments, including lancets, needles and scissors. Engraving with etching, 1771.
  • Two men, one cutting his finger-nails with a pair of scissors. Oil painting.
  • Two men, one cutting his finger-nails with a pair of scissors. Oil painting.
  • Surgical instruments: a variety of forceps, drills and scissors, with demonstrational figures. Etching by R.W., 1687.
  • A tailor cutting cloth with scissors while his colleagues sew at a bench. Woodcut by J. Amman.
  • Surgical instruments (forceps, scissors and scalpel); advertising a trade exhibition in Baden-Württemberg. Lithograph after F. Mezger, 1965.
  • A pedlar with his tray of wares holds up a pair of scissors. Line engraving after M. Laroon, 1711.
  • A woman taking a large knife and scissors to the corns on her feet. Coloured lithograph after J. Gillray.
  • Two cloth-sellers (?), each carrying a stick and a pair of scissors. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • A woman taking a large knife and scissors to the corns on her feet. Coloured lithograph after J. Gillray.
  • Textiles: a loom for carpet weaving, cutting with scissors (top), combing the warp threads (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
  • A French dog groomer standing in profile and carrying a pair of scissors, a wooden box and a poodle under his arm. Engraving after H.W. Bunbury.
  • A French dog groomer standing in profile and carrying a pair of scissors, a wooden box and a poodle under his arm. Engraving after H.W. Bunbury.
  • The Irish Massacre in 1642: men are being hanged, beaten and dragged by their feet behind horses while a woman has her nipples cut off with large scissors. Etching by Stothard.
  • A Parisian seamstress suffering from anaemia is pale and weary at her sewing machine and drops her scissors; advertising the medicine Fer Bravais for anaemia. Colour lithograph by A.-L. Willette, 1896.
  • Two figures in the shape of scissors cutting a serpent in half representing an advertisement for Positive Women, a help group for women with HIV/AIDS by the HIV Vereniging Nederland. Colour lithograph by K. Haring.
  • A woman with her hair dressed in an enormously high chignon sitting next to a table upon which are placed a pair of scissors and a bottle of hair tonic. Coloured line block by Robé (?).
  • An écorché figure, lying supine on a dissecting table, observed by two students: four instruments of dissection, including a scalpel, forceps and scissors, are also shown resting on the table. Stipple print by Lavalée after J. Gamelin, 1778/1779.
  • William Taylor, as a tailor holding a pair of scissors in one hand, a tape measure across his arm and a book of poetry in the other hand, riding on the back of a goose. Coloured etching, 1811.
  • Edward Stanton at the Saw and Crown in Lombard Street London : lancet-maker : maketh and selleth all sorts of surgeons instruments likewise razors scissors penknives knives & forks... NB lancets and other instruments carefully ground and sett.
  • Edward Stanton at the Saw and Crown in Lombard Street London : lancet-maker : maketh and selleth all sorts of surgeons instruments likewise razors scissors penknives knives & forks... NB lancets and other instruments carefully ground and sett.