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Small gothic "o" in octagonal for 1906. All three parts have sterling standard lion. Appear to be grape shears, but seeking confirmation of box angle blade. TIA!

Hello, would agree that this is most likely for grapes. Regards, Bahner

Thank you Bahner. This seems to be the established concensus. To note, the actual cutting edge is only a small zone in towards the pivot point. Since you would not want to have to loose silver (filings) in a sharpening process, the edge appears to be self maintaining by reducing the gauge of metal (on the "L") as one moves inward from the nose/tip. Any filing or scraping would be confined to that cutting zone prior to final polishing, after which no work seems needed - tested, it sliced about 1/2" clean on paper. [Trev has a notes entry about the British attempt to recover from losing the blade (scissors, etc.) business to newer cost effective German practices around this era. It concerned actions by Sheffield makers.]