My old scissors blog :)
I decided to start a blog for my box of old scissors, ranging from civil war era to modern models. Its a pretty obscure topic, I know. The main goal is to help me record and research what I have. But if anyone has any blogging tips, please share. http://queersheers.blogspot.com/

How absolutely bizarre. I was left, by an aunt, a pair of tailors' scissors. They belonged to her husband's grandfather, and were in use in South Wales in the 19th century. They are HUGE, about the size of a pair of garden shears, and very heavy. She made me promise to look after them. I'll dig them out and post a picture

Please send me a picture and I will post them with a link back to you :) I'd love to see them.

I am also doing 'scissor reading' where I try and read someone personality based on their scissors :)

I'll show you mine if you'll show me yours :) My first scissor reading went well, cue over-confidence.

*Drools*. (Um, I don't have a fetish for office supplies. Not at all. I just spent hours standing in front of the office supply section of the 5&10 where I once worked because it was, um, breezy there. That's right. And I worked in an office supply store for the same reason. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.) Oo, neat topic for a blog. My mother kept all sorts of stuff from the 1940s to the 1970s that I'm having fun going through - for example, this calculator (the one on the left - and it still works). "Gives negative answers, too," the ad proudly proclaims. My only suggestion would that you cross-post this to Flickr, where people are more likely to be searching for images of vintage office supplies.

Very nice. I've been known to spend hours in the stationery cupboard at work. I particularly like those cardboard folders in the colours of Refresher sweets. I'm still boggling a bit at the concept of ambergris lubricant though...

This is amusing and amazing, as my brother is obsessed with his scissors. It's always been the only thing he ever got upset about if they weren't where he left them, or put back where they belong. I'll start psycho analyzing him (more than usual) right away!! But I do love office supplies, and can spend hours in a stationery store. Not sure what's up with that. Kinda had thing for those little springs inside ballpoint pens when I was younger - always took them out before discarding.

Stella, either way you like :) But sure you have a favorite pair?

I was always fascinated with those big paper cutters, the ones with the arm that swings down, sort of like a guillotine.

Nothing at all strange in the collecting of scissors. I worked at an antiques auction house just south of Gainesville, FL while I was in college there. We had a couple of collections come through that were very interesting indeed. I collect and refurbish vintage fountain pens. I love them, can’t explain why. My only rule, nothing newer than 1950.