Cast Iron Tailors Shears By R Heinisch Circa 1850's
Cast Iron Tailors Shears By R Heinisch Circa 1850's
Measure approximately 15 inches
In good condition for their age
Rochus Heinisch, is the American story of an immigrant who, in 1825, left his home in Leutmeritz, Bohemia (Austria) and immigrated to Brooklyn, New York. There he started a business of making surgical instruments. Soon after he moved to Elizabeth, New Jersey and in 1835 to Newark. He enlarged his cutlery business making scissors and even knives. He had three sons who worked with him in the business. A fourth son joined them after serving in the New Jersey volunteer regiment during the Civil War. After that the company was known as Heinisch’s Sons Company. For a short time Jacop Wiss, of later Wiss scissors, worked for the Heinisch Company. The Heinisch’s Sons Company ceased production in 1914. Wiss purchased the manufacturing plant and became the largest scissor company at the time.
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