Ticket Clippers??

I bought these "Ticket Clippers" at the Great Dorset Steam Fair a few years and they've been used ever since on the Amerton Railway for clipping tickets.

I would like another set and I've a vague feeling that the stand I bought them off had various medical instruments for sale but never seem them since.

Can anyone identify what they were originally used for or what they are called?

Thanks

Peter

These seem very similar:

Are they vetinary ear marking Pliers?

David

Thanks for the replies and inspiration.

Looked around a bit and they could be ear marking pliers as suggested or leather notching pliers for watch straps, both seem to come in lots of varieties of size and type of notch. Not sure why a notch is needed in a watch strap though.

Peter

Peter

the notch is for the buckle end to pass through before the leather is folded back over itself a hole would not be the same

For the record, a proper ticket punch makes a hole, not a notch.

They were invented by the Victorians for a job creation scheme, giving employment to street urchins who would sweep the chads off the floor of coaches etc. at the end of the day.

Neil

We used this type of pliers to notch card patterns in the clothing trade. search pattern notcher. Arthur

I have just been out in workshop and found mine.If you send me your address i will post them to you. Arthur

I suppose they didn't want the chads hanging around?

Amazing what you can find out by asking--thanks everyone!

We print Edmondson tickets style for various railways and are often asked where to find smaller clippers as the "traditiional" variety are often heavy and out of place in smaller hands especially on miniature railways.

Thanks for the offer Arthur which I'd like to take up, I'll send you a personal message with my address.

Peter