USMC and PCI cobblers tools

[Northwoods]

Picked up two of these today.  Just alike.  Thick bladed leather saw with nail puller on the end.
One is USMC:  United Shoe Machinery Company; the other PCI--unknown to me.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-USMC-United-Shoe-Machinery-Corp-Serrated-Saw-Tooth-Tack-Puller-/252763553127?hash=item3ad9e1bd67:g:NnwAAOSwUKxYje07

[Bill Houghton]

That's a nail puller with multiple slots.  I briefly worked in a shoe factory (boy, was I glad when the foreman told me he was letting me go!), running the last stapler, which sent two nails through the sewed upper into the wooden foot-shaped form, the last, around which the shoe would be made.  I used an identical tool to remove nails that misfired, and the folks down the line used them to pull my nails when it was time.

[lptools]

Hello, Bill. You should have known it was time to go when you got to the "last" stapler :-)

[Bill Houghton]

Hello, Bill. You should have known it was time to go when you got to the "last" stapler :-)

I did find it amusing that the last stapling step was one of the early steps in making the shoe.  That amusement was not enough to sustain me through really boring days.

[Northwoods]

That's a nail puller with multiple slots.  I briefly worked in a shoe factory (boy, was I glad when the foreman told me he was letting me go!), running the last stapler, which sent two nails through the sewed upper into the wooden foot-shaped form, the last, around which the shoe would be made.  I used an identical tool to remove nails that misfired, and the folks down the line used them to pull my nails when it was time.

Maybe that's how you used it, but I believe it was meant as a cutting tool--with a nail puller on the tip. 
But then, it is a tool, and the user gets to decide how it is used--as long as you are not opening paint cans with a vintage dovetail chisel.

[lptools]

Hello, Northwoods. That tool is still being made, and sold, by C S Osborne. Their catalog shows it as a No. 121 Tack & Staple Remover. Regards,Lou

[Northwoods]

Hello, Northwoods. That tool is still being made, and sold, by C S Osborne. Their catalog shows it as a No. 121 Tack & Staple Remover. Regards,Lou

You have it right.  Thanks.