Maker: Unknown, Taiwan Model: Unknown Materials: Unknown Year: Vintage? ~1960s. Length: 20cm, 8" Description: As shown. This model seems to be very common. Value: ~$5 3 examples in collection
Early 50's Multi-purpose sissors 1. Blades are grapefruit web cutters -kitchen sissors 2. Bottle cap opener 3. center jaw is for screw-on bottle tops like food coloring, spice bottles, any small top that dries up and is hard to open by hand. May also be used as a nut cracker for fresher nuts for baking. 4. Last is the tip that looks like a screwdriver but is for opening the spice tins, coffee tins, and even a paint can.
A note about the web cutter - you 1/2 a grapefruit then you cut the web around the center of the core and cut the stem at the base - open up the sissors and use the serated edge to seperate the vains from each side of the fruit/meat from the rim to the center - it makes a mess if you do it backwards - than a little sugar sprinkled over to taste. TEN
Maker: Unknown, Taiwan
Early 50's Multi-purpose sissors
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2. Bottle cap opener
3. center jaw is for screw-on bottle tops like food coloring, spice bottles, any small top that dries up and is hard to open by hand. May also be used as a nut cracker for fresher nuts for baking.
4. Last is the tip that looks like a screwdriver but is for opening the spice tins, coffee tins, and even a paint can.
A note about the web cutter - you 1/2 a grapefruit then you cut the web around the center of the core and cut the stem at the base - open up the sissors and use the serated edge to seperate the vains from each side of the fruit/meat from the rim to the center - it makes a mess if you do it backwards - than a little sugar sprinkled over to taste. TEN
Goodness, it seems i had some of the uses wrong. Thanks for enlightening me :)
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