Thank you Gar1 for asking the questions, which resurrected some other threads for me. The whole history of tools/implements/whatever is fascinating.

I'm "only" 65, but grew up in Baltimore in the 50s, where we lived in one of the famed row houses, with a back alley for the trash man and other vendors/deliverymen to use. We had a knife and scissor grinder who would come down the alley pushing a cart with his wheel and other gear and sharpened anything. My mother would have her scissors done and my father would sometime leave out his hedge shears, plane blades or chisels and ask my mother to get them touched up when the guy came through the neighborhood, which was probably monthly. I wish I had my dad's plane and chisels. They were nice ones because after returning from WWII he worked for a while for a tool supply shop.

What a different era!

PS -- Sorry to derail your thread.