Unusual pliers

DavidP, South Wales · Jul 29, 2020

Hello everyone, can anyone recognise these pliers and what they were designed to be used for? They are not big enough for fencing use.
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teddy52food · Jul 29, 2020

Shoeing horses??

TimV · Jul 29, 2020

One possibility is that they are "lasting pliers"--used in pulling leather up over a shoe form (called a last) and it's then nailed in place with the little hammer head prepetory to being trimmed off below the nails later in the shoe-making process. There's all sorts of shapes and sizes of them for various types of shoes and places on the shoe, but most have this basic shape.

Janicholson · Jul 29, 2020

Tim V has it right. My dad had (for no reason) a cobblers set with 15 ools there were 4 pair of those, not alike. Jim

DavidP,South Wales · Jul 30, 2020

Thanks for the suggestions on the pliers. Very helpful.
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