Desk Scissors

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Object Timeline

1969	We acquired this object.
2013	We photographed this object. We photographed this object.
2015	We photographed this object.
2024	You found it!

Desk Scissors

This is a Desk scissors. We acquired it in 1969. Its medium is steel. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.

Photograph, Stahls Chain-nose Pliers (Over Actual Size), from Eskilstuna, Sweden, $2.49

Photograph, Stahls Chain-nose Pliers (Over Actual Size), from Eskilstuna,...
gelatin silver print.
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 84.XM.956.1057.
8.2014.4

Tonsillotome (France)

Tonsillotome (France)
brass, steel, ivory.
Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History, 1978.0874.02.
14.2012.73

Noyes Alligator Forceps (Germany)

Noyes Alligator Forceps (Germany)
stainless steel.
Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History, M-09857.
14.2012.75

Our curators have highlighted 1 object that are related to this one.

Metal brooch made of flat, thin silver metal pieces that connect to form geometric designs. The main elements are a rectangle that is taller than it is wide with two identical right triangles connect to the right and left sides. The right angles of the triangles end slightly above the rectangle. The details include two strips that extend horizontally from the top of the rectangle to the ends of the triangle. On the top of the large rectangle are four small, separated, equidistant rectangles that are as tall as the distance from the top of the large rectangle to the top of the triangles. The middle two rectangles extend below the top of the large rectangle and then angle to the sides so that the parallel lines do the following: one line connects to the tip of the triangle that touches the large rectangle and one line ends just above.

Brooch, 1998
sawn and mounted silver.
The Susan Grant Lewin Collection, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.
2016-34-14

Its dimensions are

20.5 x 1.8 x 4 cm (8 1/16 x 11/16 x 1 9/16 in.)

Cite this object as

Desk Scissors; steel; 20.5 x 1.8 x 4 cm (8 1/16 x 11/16 x 1 9/16 in.); 1969-88-1

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2CEWZ/
Accession Number 1969-88-1
Object ID 18471549