The Sheffield Independent, 27 December 1823, advertised an auction of an ‘immense stock of lined-blade scissors’.  The stock had belonged to the late Mr James Beal, of the Rustlings, who ‘was well known as one of the oldest manufacturers in the Lined-Bladed Branch, and celebrated for producing a good article’.  Up for auction were 6,000 dozen pairs of scissors in various stages of manufacture – some forged, some filed, and some filed and ground.   Beal’s death date has not been traced and his identity is uncertain in directories – though James Beal, common scissors manufacturer, was listed in Rusling [sic] Park, in 1787 (with the trade mark ‘A3’).   James Beal, scissors maker, was later active in Greystones.  ‘Lined blade’ scissors referred to the forge-welding of a cutting edge of crucible steel to a less expensive material, such as iron.