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Size is 17 1/2 inches long by 6 3/5 inches wide.
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Answer from Kovels: The item is a tobacco cutter, wrought iron, old green surface, early 19th century.
It’s a tobacco cutter, probably for cigar tobacco
Old bread slicer
Looks to me like a chopper for stalks of grain or other plant matter?
Looks like a kraut cutter.
Tobacco cutting block
Tobacco cutter.
It looks like an old tobacco plug cutter, I’m in love with the handmade scroll work four sided nut at the hinge. I can only imagine what this thing look like when it was new.
For cutting tips of cigars off. Don’t know what the actual name might be
I believe it is a tobacco cutter.
A cheese slicer.
Antique tobacco cutter
Tobacco cutter
Tobacco leaf cutter.
I think it’s a cigar cutter.
Cheese cutter.
It’s an antique tobacco plug cutter.
A cigar cutter.
It looks like a Bread slicer
Paper cutter?
Plug tobacco cutter.
Boot scraper?
Tobacco cutter?
It sure looks like a plane at first glance, but then I saw the swivel joint on the right, which indicates that it’s a chopper of some sort. Because it’s not large, I’m guessing it wasn’t for bad managers who were about to be fired. I’ll venture it’s for kitchen use, perhaps to lob off the nasty ends of fruit/veggies.
Butcher meat cleaver
Some sort of kitchen utensil? Like a cheese cutter?
an antique tobacco cutter
It appears to be a Tobbaco Cutter
An antique paper cutter!
I bake bread for a living; this looks like a French bread guillotine from the late 1800s early 1900s.
Handy device.
Looks like some kind of hinged cleaver. I’m guessing a bread slicer or a cheese slicer.
Wood plane
I think it is a bread slicer !
It’s a cheese cutter?
Sugar cone cutter/slicer
A paper cutter
I cannot find anymore information on this other than the dimensions so here goes.
I think it is a primitive clothing iron. It looks as if there was a metal plate attached at the bottom at some Tim.
Looks like an old cutting board with bread slicer.
I think it’s a tobacco cutter.
A simple tobacco cutter, probably from the 1700’s or a rural blacksmith, most later ones were more intricate and ornate.
Tobacco Cutter?
my guess is French Wood and Iron Bakery Bread Cutter or french baguette cutter
Tabacco plug cutter
Tobacco Cutter or a clam shucker.
Tabacco cutter?
It looks like an antique plane