Shears & Scissors, Tinners' Snips, Pruning Shears: 1901. 24 pages. This is before the Inlaid process was developed. All items include trade prices. This was a period of very stable prices. Also in PDF.
1907 catalog for the trade covers shears, scissors, razors. 64 pages. Now includes Inlaid shears, with the Inlaid process featured. Includes 23 pages on straight razors and strops starting on catalog page 37. All items include trade prices. Also in PDF.
Suggestions For Advertising for dealers. Highlights the free Electrotypes that are provided to dealers if they advertise in newspapers. Includes shears and full ad electrotypes. Presumed to be circa 1906, as that is when they started national advertising. 16 pages printed on newsprint. 6" × 8-7/8".
Solid Steel Pruning Shears 1901
Want To Learn Shear Advertising? and make money at the same time?
Offers an advertising plan when a $50 order is placed. Circa early 1900s is assumed. Poster: 7-11/16" × 13-7/8". Also in PDF.
Make the shear stock attractive
A large foldout that is 11-3/16" × 14-3/16" open. It is soliciting new dealers. Send $50 and along with the scissors you get a handsome glass show case. Inside was a postcard to send back stating that you were accepting the offer.
New Dealer Postcard
Postcard for a business to send in to Wiss requesting to buy a sample pack, to start being a dealer.
Discount Sheet for High Grade Shears and Scissors
This goes with a catalog that was between the 1901 and 1907 catalogs. The missing catalog is very similar to the 1901 catalog, with the main difference being the addition of razors.
Revised Standard List: Steel Laid Shears and Scissors 1907
This new price list was sent out with a postcard announcing their upcoming 1907 catalog (which is above). The sheet came from a folder of papers from a hardware store that closed around 1920.
The New Wiss Forged Steel Snips. A slip of paper 6" x 3-1/2". Too thin to be a postcard, but is postcard-size. Date assumed to be second half of the 1900s.
Business Card
Postcard posted May 16 1904 to Mr. L.D. Parkhurst, Danielson, Conn.
The postcard is announcing that V.P. Gairoard is coming With a full line of Wiss Samples. He will reach you about May 24 1904. He will demonstrate to you how our advertising plan helps the Wiss dealers to secure the Best Cutlery Trade.
I'm Coming Postcard
Better hold your Scissor orders. At last you will see the great Wiss line of Shears. Tinners' Snips too. Copyright 1908.
Postcard posted May 12 1909 to Nathan Trotter & Co., Phila., Pa.
The postcard is announcing that V.P. Gairoard is coming to visit. He will call May 23 1909. "His line of samples is very complete and instructive, it will interest you."
Letter dated January 8, 1904
Letter dated April 16, 1904
Wiss is requesting a credit from Middleburg for a stone that was entirely too hard and impossible to true up - one side being much softer than the other. And then placing an order.
Letter dated April 20, 1904
Louis Wiss is stating that a little variation is okay, and that Middleburg may increase the order to make the order sufficient for a car.
Letter dated June 10, 1904.
Letter from Wiss to Middleburg Stone stating that one grinding wheel arrived broken, and they want to test the stones before paying.
Letter dated June 15, 1904
Wiss is sending a cover letter for a freight bill.
Invoice Sent to Schleer Bros, June 25, 1909
Being billed $10.00 for 1 Sample Line Razor Strops.
Letter to Arnold Kornahrens 1909
Blaming a local newspaper for not running advertisements. Also in PDF.
Envelope Wiss sent on September 22, 1902.
Envelope Wiss sent on March 24, 1908.
Envelope with Unprinted Date
Wiss sending to Marting Bros. Co., Att: Buyer House Furnishings Dept.