Is this a Blacksmiths sandwich toaster or waffle iron ?

[rustyric]

[amecks]

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!

[Catch22!]

I would say a tinsmiths hand bender.  Looks like an old one.

[rustyric]

tinsmiths hand bender - wow I had not thought of that !

[jimandkc]

 These are early wafer tongs. I believe used in early churches.

[geneg]

tinsmith's hand brake,  also used to lock seams.

[Northwoods]

But would make great hot pocket toaster for the Boy Scouts.

[mvwcnews]

Did the "waffle" get re-purposed from a pair of carriage steps?

[skipskip]

with those metal handles, making S'mores could be fun after the first couple

you smell sumtin burnin Looie?

[JoeCB]

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