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It looks a lot like a sheet metal bending tool for roofing. The ones that I've seen are wider and don't have the wafflling. But it does look like it might be fun at a campfire!
I would say a tinsmiths hand bender. Looks like an old one.
tinsmiths hand bender - wow I had not thought of that !
These are early wafer tongs. I believe used in early churches.
tinsmith's hand brake, also used to lock seams.
But would make great hot pocket toaster for the Boy Scouts.
Did the "waffle" get re-purposed from a pair of carriage steps?
with those metal handles, making S'mores could be fun after the first couple
you smell sumtin burnin Looie?
Defiantly blacksmith judging from the apparent fire burned jaws, but I doubt that it was designed for bending, I say that because of the long thin reins ( handles ) and the very long length of the jaws, features not conducive to leverage needed to bend metal. If it was for closing a folded seam, I guess that would have had to be hot work using hammer blows on the closed jaws. Other than that - no guess. Smiths were always making special purpose tongs for a given job. Look at pix of old smithies and you see walls lined with different tongs.
Joe B