Engravings of plant shoots embellish the metal grips and offer a higher resistance to slipping Typeface an logo reflect the first shears from the 20s This Anniversary Edition of the well-known LÖWE 1 combines the most modern technology with nostalgic design: On the occasion of the 90 years anniversary LÖWE have designed pruning shears that are visually representative of their first shears – the Original LÖWE 1 anniversary shears, the LÖWE 1.102. It is probably some 50-60 years old and, aside from some rust on the chrome and the blade, being carbon steel, showing some tarnishing, the secateurs still perform well indeed. I still have a very old small pair or Rolcut pruning shears, much smaller than the Original LÖWE 2 or the Rolcut 7 that I found in a park and have refurbished myself (spare parts are not available for those old Rolcut ones anymore unfortunately). Mind you, we have seen this same action in Germany when the German Democratic Republic was annexed after the fall of the wall and great companies such as Zeiss Jena and other were deliberately destroyed in the former case because the original owners of Zeiss Jena are now Zeiss Wetzlar and did not wan the competition from the Jena factory. Guess they were just too much of a competition. In 1994 Rolcut was taken over, so I understand, by Fiskars and deliberately destroyed. In 1933 Foundation of the company "Fritz Howaldt Ltd." in London where in 1945 Rolcut took over the manufacture in London. In 1928 came the “invention” of the Original LÖWE pruning shear under the "Rolcut" brand in England by Colonel B.J. The all metal design and anvil blade made them the toughest pruner available and they were the choice of many professionals and enthusiasts. “Made in Germany” certainly was not welcome in Britain as too many “Made in Germany” products had been dropped onto the country in a destructive way.Īlthough Rolcut was a well known brand in the UK the tool design was from a German company using the “Original LÖWE” brand who had patented the first anvil pruner in 1923. In fact, they were manufactured in the UK under license in the time when, after World War One and later World War Two, German products were not permitted to be imported to Britain. Having a good pair of anvil pruning shears mean the user can cut both dry and green wood without the need for changing tools.įor many years, Löwe anvil pruners – first invented by Walther Schröder in 1923 – were manufactured and sold under license in the UK as 'Rolcut Secateurs'. In general it has to be said that anvil pruners offer much more advantages in comparison to bypass pruners. And that fact, the medium quality of other brands, discredit the standard of our products and how an anvil pruners has to be. Many cheap anvil pruners from Asia or of medium quality will lose their sharpness immediately after several cuts, and from this point on they may squeeze more than provide a clean cut. Schröder, under the Original LÖWE brand, because the secret is the quality of the blade and general construction. It is a popular misconception that anvil pruners will squeeze the branch, that is to say good anvil pruners will not squeeze, and especially not those of the company that invented the anvil pruner, namely Gebr. But, if the blades are well sharpened and the tip is being used even the smallest plant materials can be cleanly cut with ease. But only if the pruners are made to the highest standards and many anvil pruners of the budget range simply are not.Īnvil pruners will cut green wood perfectly, as they will dry, and the thicker the branch will be, the easier the cut with an anvil pruner is. It is a myth that anvil secateurs cannot deal with thin green materials and that their cut is not good enough for green wood. Many professionals appear to advise the use for anvil pruners only for dry wood and bypass pruners for green but I have found that anvil pruners can do both equally well. Schröder, continues this tradition of high quality products for the horticultural, viticultural and aboricultural trade. It is now 90 years ago that Walther Schröder invented, produced and patented the first ever anvil pruning shears in Kiel, in Northern Germany and his grandson, Randolph Schröder, who is now the managing director of Gebr. Happy Birthday Löwe and the Anvil Pruner. The Anvil Pruner is 90 years old and the world's first was the Original Löwe 1 made, as it is still today, in Kiel, Germany, by what is now Gebr.
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