Marked Louis Sacks Shoe jack New York on the base, Patent Apply For on the collar.
In original red paint. Stands 36.5" tall, heavy piece.
I would like to trade it for an interesting wrench, or something small. It's free if you
don't have anything to trade.
Located Mid-Cape Cod Massachusetts for pickup (you haul it off), shipping would cost
a fortune.
Please PM me for details.

 it looks like it may take the common shoe irons.

  would be the right height for the cobbler to stand up and nail on new heals or
replace the soles. back when we had to wear our shoes for a few years,
in the 30's and 40's, I remember cutting cardboard to put inside my shoes
when a hole would wear in the soles.

  and look at what they pay for kids shoes today.

  how many remember feeling the nail inside the shoe from the heal ???

   or getting punished due to getting your pant leg chewed up in the bicycle chain ?

"how many remember feeling the nail inside the shoe from the heel ???"

And that's how i learned to start using my dad's tools.

Worse still with the chain was pulling it off and then having to fix that AND your pants leg. 

Ahh the good old days.

 
p. toad,  the worse was when my Mom found out.

Turnnut, i was probably old enough by then to get handed the thread, needle and darning egg if needed and get put to work fixing my britches.   Mom didn't have a sewing machine 'til sometime later and i was taught to use that (and yes, i still have that machine).