I've been holding on to these for years and I can't even remember where they came from, it's been that long.  Does anyone know what they would be used for?

Looks like a leather tool with a bunch of adjustments -- the punch visible in the top picture is distinctively a leather punch.

It's an adjustable button hole cutter for leather. I have never seen one with a punch before.

Do they say "Osborne" on the handle or around the pivot?  Osborne made/makes a lot of the pro-grade leather tools, and they look kind of Osborney to me.

I think its an adjustable buttonhole cutter for leather.
The fence is adjusted keep the slits spaced equally in from the edge.
  yours Scott
   

Would this be an application?  I'm told this is my g-gpa's dice cup.

Look here!

http://www.patented-antiques.com/Backpages/T-F-S/Misctools/leather-tools.htm


B Davis

Looks like it!

These appeared on the French, Outils Ancien, site recently. They are button hole pliers, but their use is limited to positions on the edge of an object....

Modify message isn't working (for me) - the revolving brass anvil allows differenet length slots to be cut with the one blade, the guide sets the position from the edge. The above image is a leather military étui (sheath) for a serpe de genie (sapper's billhook) - dating from the WW1 period. This one is stamped 1918.

Not sure those pliers are exclusively for leather.  I have a few pair I harvested from the I dragged it home collection of the man who kept machines running for a suit manufacturer.

Quote from: Aunt Phil on July 15, 2012, 02:19:13 PM
Not sure those pliers are exclusively for leather.  I have a few pair I harvested from the I dragged it home collection of the man who kept machines running for a suit manufacturer.

Were the machines belt driven?  Or had they been belt driven earlier?

Quote from: Aunt Phil on July 15, 2012, 02:19:13 PM
Not sure those pliers are exclusively for leather.  I have a few pair I harvested from the I dragged it home collection of the man who kept machines running for a suit manufacturer.

I am not surprised a bit.
'Ol Ichabod Greenberg, the little master tailor, down on Madison and 5th,  had some tools, now, you best believe.
No messing around. Tools!

  yours Scott

DAMN, those Wiss scissors were Ickys;  I best return em to him cause I damn sure don't want a man with the grip he must have had after me.

Sewing machines in places like Hickey Freeman last for at least the life of 2 sewing machine operators.
Belt driven, not lineshaft belt though.

"Newer" machines had 3Ø varispeed drives. 
I even have a small German enclosed varispeed I harvested from that sale. 

> I best return em to him cause I damn sure don't want a man with the grip he must have had after me.

On the other hand, you don't want him after you *with* those things in his hand....