A Story of Shears and Scissors: Their origin and growth in the Old World and the New, with particular emphasis on the development of the arts of making and selling fine quality shears and scissors in America, which parallels the first hundred years of J. Wiss & Sons Co., 1848-1948. The book was commissioned to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the company. 40 pages.

Razors. Wiss made the highest quality straight razors until 1924. This section identifies and features pictures of razors, sets, and strops.

Pictures of Shears and Scissors. Items selected for being unusual, the pictures being really good, being in a family collection, or some whim. To get started only a few are up.

Pinking Shears. Lists all variants and has guides for identification.

Mementos and Ephemera. Includes 1876 Exposition pass, label pins, 1948 centennial items, a rose, glassware, tie clasps, letterpress blocks, etc. Includes packaging.

Point-Of-Sale Marketing Items covers posters (with some showing the Stages of Manufacture), and felt for putting under shears. Includes the common TGIF sign .

Display Cases and Cabinets. Wiss distributed a variety of display cases with some doubling as stock containers. They either sat on a counter or floor, or hung from a wall. Some revolved.

Timeline of the Wiss Family Businesses: 1848-1976. Includes the Shear Trust story.

Employee Groups and Employees at Work pictures.

Family biographies, genealogy, photos and information.

Cooper Industries: 1833-1983 by David Keller, 1984. Includes eight pages on the history of Wiss. At Amazon.com.

Knowing Newark: Selected Star-Ledger Columns by Charles F. Cummings by The Newark Public Library, 2016. Page 31 has an article on the Wiss Company. The publisher's page. Page at Amazon. Book in WorldCat Libraries.

Early tools of New Jersey and the men who made them, by Alexander Farnham (1984) has a few pages on the Wiss company in the Cutlers chapter. (A few inaccuracies.) The book is in many WorldCat Libraries and at Amazon.

The Wiss Store always had a full line of cutlery, and added over the years: silver, optical, jewelry and a gift shop. In 1887, when the factory moved, the retail stayed downtown. In 1911 the store was one of the first tenants in the office building.

The Factory was opened on Littleton Avenue in 1887. There are pictures from the beginning through its being torn down in 2013. The site has become a PSE&G switching station.

The Wiss Office Building was built on Broad Street in 1910. This was Newark's first skyscraper north of the Morris Canal. The building was sold in 1956. There are pictures of the building through the years and pictures of it being torn down in 2013.

R. Heinisch Sons' Works was bought by Wiss in 1914, making Wiss the largest manufacturer of quality scissors in the world.

Boker Tree Brand Knives, adjacent to Wiss in Maplewood, was purchased by Wiss in March 1970. Production was kept separate, and the products were co-branded. Many commemorative knives were issued.

Property in Maplewood, NJ was bought by Wiss. In 1958 the Kroyden plant was bought and used for manufacturing. In 1962 the adjoining property was bought and a warehouse was built on it.

This is New Jersey, a weekly radio series by the State Conservation and Economic Development in cooperation with the NJ Manufacturers Association, broadcast "A Story of Scissors and Shears" in 1948. The broadcast was 15 minutes long. Survives is an Audio and Transcript: A Story of Scissors and Shears.

J. Wiss Patents.
I found 31 patents when I searched for patents assigned to "Wiss Sons."

Pinking Shear Patents.
Pinking shears were made in conjunction with Samuel Briskman's Pinking Shears Corporation. They filed for many patents over the years. See page on Samuel Briskman.

Roller Shear Patent.
This was a shears patented by the Bell System and made by Wiss. It was used to cut and then press down telegram strips onto blank forms. See pictures of a pair.