Scissors

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These scissors comes from a 15-drawer cabinet found in the Herschel family home in the 1950s.

The contents of this and a similar cabinet seem to suggest that they were used by successive generations of the family to store specimens, material and apparatus for carrying out experiments. These scissors however are clearly domestic rather than scientific: they were found in the cabinet accompanied by a pin cushion suggesting a link with one of the many female members of this family.

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Object Details

ID:	AST1029.1
Type:	Cabinet contents
Display location:	Not on display
Creator:	Unknown
Date made:	Unknown
People:	Herschel, Caroline Lucretia; Herschel, Margaret Louisa Herschel, Maria Sophia Herschel, Matilda Rose
Credit:	National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Herschel Collection
Measurements:	Overall: 5 x 95 x 37 mm
Parts:	Cabinet Scissors (Cabinet contents) (AST1029.1) Weight (Cabinet contents) (AST1029.2) Weight (Cabinet contents) (AST1029.3) Weight (Cabinet contents) (AST1029.4) Rock sample (Cabinet contents) (AST1029.5) Pin cushion (Cabinet contents) (AST1029.6) Perpetual calendar (Cabinet contents) (AST1029.7) Spirit level (Cabinet contents) (AST1029.8) Tube packaging (Cabinet contents) (AST1029.9) Prism (Cabinet contents) (AST1029.10) Prism (Cabinet contents) (AST1029.11) Trapezory prism (Cabinet contents) (AST1029.12) Trapezory prism (Cabinet contents) (AST1029.13) Glass (Cabinet contents) (AST1029.14) Paper 'cocktail' sticks (Cabinet contents) (AST1029.15) Box of prisms and glass (Cabinet contents) (AST1029.16) Barometer case and newspaper cutting (Cabinet contents) (AST1029.17) Microscope slideholder (Cabinet contents) (AST1029.18) Eyepiece doublet (Cabinet contents) (AST1029.19) Stopping plate (Cabinet contents) (AST1029.20) Transparencies (Cabinet contents) (AST1029.21) Glass (Cabinet contents) (AST1029.22) Glass (Cabinet contents) (AST1029.23) Microscope slide (Cabinet contents) (AST1029.24) Microscope slide box (Cabinet contents) (AST1029.25) Microscope slides (Cabinet contents) (AST1029.26) Specimen tube (Cabinet contents) (AST1029.27) Specimen tube (Cabinet contents) (AST1029.28) Microscope slides (Cabinet contents) (AST1029.29) Microscope slides (Cabinet contents) (AST1029.30) Microscope slides and box (Cabinet contents) (AST1029.31) Lenses (Cabinet contents) (AST1029.32) Portable lighter (Cabinet contents) (AST1029.33) Track gauge (Cabinet contents) (AST1029.34) Magnesium (Cabinet contents) (AST1029.35) Metal gauze (Cabinet contents) (AST1029.36) Metal ingots (Cabinet contents) (AST1029.37) Metal ingots (Cabinet contents) (AST1029.38) Metals and alloys (Cabinet contents) (AST1029.39) Metal gauze (Cabinet contents) (AST1029.40) Metal foil (Cabinet contents) (AST1029.41) Metal solder (Cabinet contents) (AST1029.42) Metal ingot (Cabinet contents) (AST1029.43) Antimony ingot (Cabinet contents) (AST1029.44) Uranium glass (Cabinet contents) (AST1029.45) Glass (Cabinet contents) (AST1029.46) Prism (Cabinet contents) (AST1029.47) Glass rings (Cabinet contents) (AST1029.48) Stage micrometer (Cabinet contents) (AST1029.49) Glass block (Cabinet contents) (AST1029.50) Gauge and box (Cabinet contents) (AST1029.51) Glass plate (Cabinet contents) (AST1029.52) Prism (Cabinet contents) (AST1029.53) Ferrule (Cabinet contents) (AST1029.54) Air lens (Cabinet contents) (AST1029.55) Metal foil (Cabinet contents) (AST1029.56) Glass (Cabinet contents) (AST1029.57) Microscope attachments (Cabinet contents) (AST1029.58) Thermometer tube (Cabinet contents) (AST1029.59) Microscope slide (Cabinet contents) (AST1029.60) Microscope slide (Cabinet contents) (AST1029.61)