Can you tell me what's this?

This is a pair of antique scissors used to snip the top off a soft-boiled egg, which sits in its little egg cup.

Then you eat the egg with your little spoon.

I have two china egg cups left over from my childhood. Goes well with toast soldiers.

Eggs-zactly what @gailcalled said.

And here I thought it was for cutting the end off cigars. It makes sense, what with the chicken-motif and all!

Thank you for the answer about the eggs! I too thought it might be for cigars like this

Blade on cigar cutter is really sharp, like a guillotine. Beware of snipped finger tips.

Actually, when I first saw the picture, I thought it might be a kitchen tool used to cut slices of pepperoni or sausage (although I couldn’t figure out how the chicken played into it) ha ha.

Egg cutter

This is amazing.

My mom has those, we used to use them when we were little to eat our “oodle” eggs.

The website hosting the picture promises a free car to whoever gets this right.

So when do I expect delivery?

Here’s my antique egg cup, now sitting in my kitchen cupboard.

I don’t like the look of it…

^^ Are you impugning the egg cup?

It looks like something you could use to cut the balls off a cow.

@hnhall32: If you want to make a silly joke, do keep in mind that cows have udders and not balls.

@gailcalled. Sorry it’s not a joke. I have cows technically 2 heifers, one bull, and one steer. It’s just what came to mind when I saw the rooster. I saw that it looked like scissors and it had the hole with the cutter. We have hens n roosters as well. It’s where my mind went when I saw the photo. Sorry didn’t mean to offend.

No offense taken. These scissors are very small in reality.

Do you call a bull a cow?

Well there’s so many cattle out here where I live that we just call them “cows” in general. A “cow” I learned at an auction is a female cow that’s had a baby. They are called heifers if they haven’t had a calf, and a bull still can fertilize a heifer or cow. A steer has had its testicles removed.

@hnhall32: Although I live in dairy cow country, I never knew all the correct nomenclature; thank you for the lesson in animal husbandry.(I love that expression and rarely have a chance to use it..)

Yay! Youre welcome! I’m glad that my knowledge has enlightened you. :)