Russian Antique Scissors dated 1870

Hello my friends!
What ive found seems to be an antique russian scissors with mark on it 1870 and what seems to be more - probably the manufacture.
I cant read it nor decrypt what it says.
Maybe one of You could help with that one.
Id be really gratefull.
Have a good day, Tom.
https://www.photobox.co.uk/my/photo/full?photo_id=501853209557
https://www.photobox.co.uk/my/photo/full?photo_id=501853210088
https://www.photobox.co.uk/my/photo/full?photo_id=501853210255
https://www.photobox.co.uk/my/photo/full?photo_id=501853209135

 

Welcome to the forum. Your photos are not available to us, presumably because they're in a private album on Photobox.

It would be preferable to upload your photos on the forum. Please refer to this thread:

https://www.antiquers.com/threads/making-a-post-and-uploading-pictures.16038/

 

Hi @skanhouse

We need you to upload your images directly into your post, please!

If they're already on your computer, you can drag and drop the whole lot, then select "all full size"

Welcome

 

@sabre123 beat me to it

 

Perfect! Thx!

 

Edit and select "all full size" please, then you're good to go

 

You done good

 

They look like older seamstress' scissors..........And sorry, I did not see the straight-on images when I did this.........AND IF I'D PAID ATTENTION TO YOUR POST HEADING, I'd have seen you DID say RUSSIAN!!!!! MY BAD!!! There are those here who can read Russian.....I'm just not sure of the time they are on-board....so be a little patient.....they should be along!!



EDIT: BUT not sure this straight on shows anything any clearer.....the date IS clearly 1870...... And BOTTOM LEFT there does appear to be very faint letters, but hardly discernible....maybe maker's initials?

 

From what I read, this is one of the largest pre-revolutionary Russian scissors makers. The factory of Kondratov based in the village of Vachi (there should be a third line below the surname marking the place but it seems it was erased by time)

 

There are a couple of current listings in eBay of scissors from the same factory.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Imperial-Russian-Time-Sewing-Scissors-Kondratov-Vachi-Firm-/152731721792

This was found through Picclick but is an eBay listing:
https://picclick.com/Antique-Russian-Scissor-252639826712.html

They seem optimistic in price because there are also several closed searches that nobody bought. I didn't see any that were actually purchased.

 

Thank You very much.
Love.