These shears remind me very much of similar perhaps smaller shears found in many garden sheds in the UK some 40 years ago. Bypass pruners, handles sometimes covered in green paint to make them look like garden tools, that worked quite well since they were sharp, often used for rose pruning. When used in limited applications they lasted a long time.
The posted image is a tool designed to cut dead chickens; soft flesh with the long blade and bones with the notch. Since there are not a lot of intermediate uses it probably lasts a long time. No paint in that situation of course, it would flake off and end up in someone's soup.
Positive attributes: easily cleaned and disinfected, throw into a bath of whatever, wiggle about and no abrading plastic handles to harbour odd things, long tip can reach hard to access nooks and corners, bright metal visible among foliage and twigs.
Negative attributes: all bypass pruners suffer the problem of tip spreading, where the tip is used frequently to cut small but hard things. This bends the sharp top blade outwards away from the bottom part particularly where cutting is combined with twisting. This gets worse over time so tip cutting becomes less and less efficient as the hinge wears loose. Also the long blade means less mechanical advantage - if the cutting side is short then the same amount of force can be applied more effectively to the cutting action. Likely your tool was used for long days in an abattoir by hard, coarse hands accustomed to the thin handles. Modern pruners tend to have thicker handles since they are mostly used by weekend gardeners using gloves covering soft hands which would not enjoy the thin handles.
By all means use them for gardening, but keep them for the fine work, and have a regular pair of pruners that can be used by less expert helpers and for the brute work that gardeners are often faced with.
