Featured What are these? Candle snuffers?

That’s what I thought until I looked online and all the examples I can see all seem to have a little box on the top.
The blades are made up of two right angles blades which fit together.
Any ideas please?
Thankyou

 

My thoughts also!

 

Ooh maybe! Off to look…
Thankyou
Not that I have any grapes to shear I may add but they sound very posh!

 

Spot on ladies! Thankyou, that is exactly what they are.
Does the style or the patterns date them? Victorian or later?

 

I am uncertain of the era.

 

Maybe I am being totally dense but I do not understand how these work.

Do the grapes go inside the shears?

 

I always thought they were to cut a cluster of grapes off the main stem?

 

I never heard of grape shears. Live and learn.

 

Neither had I! We do have a grape vine on the allotment, I may have to try them out.

 

Your neighbors are going to think you are getting way too hoity-toity for the place.

 

I have always known them as grape scissors. We have a pair which we sometimes use.

 

Definitely grape scissors. For cutting individual clumps of grapes off of the main bunches. A friend of mine has a set in sterling silver which they bought for a PALTRY sum of money at some antiques shop once. Apparently the seller didn't know silver when they saw it and my friend got a bargain.

 

What happened to a peel me a grape tool? LOL

 

@bercrystal does this text exchange about stock cubes between me and my OH confirm our poshness?

 

Lidl does venison meat balls.

 

Lidl? LIDL?
Honestly OBB, Don’t shatter the dream
Actually Lidl and Aldi stuff are great and so much cheaper than the others.