Presently under Construction March 2023
Below you will find Item #8366 in the 1959 Catalogue described as ‘ Best Solid Steel Pruning Shears, Double Cut with Wirecutter. Available as 6,7 & 8″ sizes. Around this time MARPLES seemed to have adopted a preference for ‘Green’. Research has shown that these pruners may have been available back in 1909 or before as Item#8356 in 6,7,8&9″ models. They are not listed in 1921 but re-appear in 1928 as 6-9″, but there is a ‘Cheaper Quality’ shown [#8367] which had ‘rivetted Blades’ in 7 or 8 inch sizes. This option is again shown in 1938. But in 1959 only the ‘best’ is shown #8366.
A recent find of which I have no information just now…a Garden Spray tool: