Coldengham, New York
Store of Cadwallader Colden, Jr.
Scissors
Haneas Wm. Youngblood purchased a pair of scissors at the Colden Store on this day, 250 years-ago.
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| Small Scissors. Image courtesy of ramsay.arthistory.wisc.edu |
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This article is one in a series of a daily accountings of Colden Store transactions. Be sure you read the first installment for an introduction to the store. You should also read this article which appeared in the Journal of the Orange County Historical Society.
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In the prior eight months, Colden sold at least six pairs of scissors. [About 20% of the DayBook has not been entered in the database.] The price ranged from 12 pence to 18 pence with the majority sold for 15 pence.
A 1753-1756 ledger from the store of William Ramsay of Virginia also records the sale of scissors. Ten pairs of scissors sold at his store in Alexandria for a price of 5 to 9 pence. That is about half the price of the scissors sold in the Colden Store. The Ramsay ledger precedes the Colden Daybook by about a decade, and its prices are generally less for similar items. More on the Ramsay Ledger can be found at this link: https://ramsay.arthistory.wisc.edu/about/
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