Oversized Carved Wooden Folk Art Scissors in Old Silver Paint activities book with the child at front

with the child at front very crisp but details progressively softening into the distance

Samples cover various sorts of stitching and hemming and edging and darning

so here's another

and the at right I would think perhaps a daughter with what we now know as Down Syndrome

which I'd like to think was testament to a great love

Oversized Carved Wooden Folk Art Scissors in Old Silver Paint activities book with the child at frontNot too much larger than an actual pair of scissors, but with nicely elongated proportions that make them feel more so. A nice whimsy of sorts, perhaps at one time hung in a tailor's shop, or at a hairdresser's?! 11 3 4" x 2 3 8" x 1 4 and in very good condition, light in weight, with nice mellowing to the silver paint and some darkening along the edges, as if they had been used!