A typical example of Sims’ Curved-on-Flat Blunt-point Scissors by the New York form of W.F. Ford and Caswell Hazard. Similar to the modern Metsumbaum scissor in use today, the Sims instrument afforded the operator the protection of a blunt tip and the utility of a curved scissor to facilitate the development of tissue planes and fine dissections in the vagina, pelvis and abdomen.