Scissors-grinder

"There was a group of shabbily dressed men smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his wheel, [...]"

(Aventure I, A SCANDAL IN BOHEMIA pg. 13)

In the Victorian London it was common to see scissors and knife grinders riding their carts along the streets. The grinding mechanism was fairly simple, it consisted of a pedal moved grinding wheel mounted on a cart. In later models the grinder wheel would be mounted on bicycles in stead of a cart.

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