rangerssuck wrote:
On Aug 30, 6:07 pm, David Billington
wrote:

I was talking with an antique restorer I know here in the UK earlier
today and she was doing some upholstery with a very nice pair of
scissors. On close inspection they were made by Heinisch in Newark New
Jersey and appeared to be in very good condition. A brief search seems
to say that Heinisch was taken over by Wiss around 1915 so these
scissors are potentially quite old but in very good condition. She
acquired them from a house clearance sale some years ago. The earlier
search seemed to show that Wiss made scissors identical to the Heinisch
from the pics I found so maybe they kept on making the same tools with a
different makers name, that happens sometimes and other times the old
makers name is continued. Any ideas what happened in this case. Also I
have a set of Wiss aviation snips, is this the same company?.


I also have a pair of Wiss scissors. I always assumed it was the same
company as the tin snips - I'd be surprised to learn otherwise.

As an aside, I saw video on the news this week of people riding Jet
Skis in the streets of Newark New Jersey after the hurricane.

Yes I've seen on the news that you guys on the east coast got it pretty
bad with Irene and while the winds weren't as bad as expected the rain
has probably caused more damage than the winds. I saw somewhere that a
new storm might be brewing off Africa and maybe 40% chance it'll be
another big storm, hopefully for your sakes it fizzles out in the Atlantic.