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It is approximately 12″ in length.

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  1. Kovels says:

    There were a few correct answers. This is an antique tobacco shredder.

  2. pinkngreen1 says:

    It is a meat grinder for sausage.

  3. John Carr says:

    Clearly a horizontal sausage stuffer.

  4. Vintage99 says:

    It’s a meat grinder. Still have one, it belonged to my grandmother.

  5. jevgleason says:

    Meat grinder and sausage stuffer.

  6. ddave says:

    Looks to me like an older grinder for sausage meat. On the end opposite the handle is a tube that you could place the sausage casing around and fill it as you ground

  7. Fat hank says:

    sausage grinder/stuffer

  8. muncle says:

    A sausage stuffer

  9. adeleben says:

    Appears to grind something and then comes out the end tube. Possibly for making sausage??

  10. Chris Hughes says:

    It’s a meat grinder/ sausage maker, we have one on display in Post Trader Store at Fort Bridger that was found in the slaughter house on site

  11. PPiman says:

    It looks like a meat grinder/ sausage maker to me.

  12. Danny51 says:

    Vintage meat grinder/ sausage grinder or tobacco shredder.

  13. Litasue says:

    This looks like a meat grinder.

  14. sk8trgrrl says:

    Is it a meat grinder? Tobacco grinder?

  15. Cldy2day says:

    Tobacco grinder

  16. jvdl says:

    Grinder, food or tobacco.

  17. ddfish says:

    A pencil sharpener

  18. ripcan08 says:

    grinder. can’t make out the front but my grandfather used one similar to grind fresh horseradish

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