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It is approximately 12″ in length.
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There were a few correct answers. This is an antique tobacco shredder.
It is a meat grinder for sausage.
Clearly a horizontal sausage stuffer.
It’s a meat grinder. Still have one, it belonged to my grandmother.
Meat grinder and sausage stuffer.
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
sausage grinder/stuffer
A sausage stuffer
Appears to grind something and then comes out the end tube. Possibly for making sausage??
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
It looks like a meat grinder/ sausage maker to me.
Vintage meat grinder/ sausage grinder or tobacco shredder.
Sausage maker
This looks like a meat grinder.
Is it a meat grinder? Tobacco grinder?
Tobacco grinder
Grinder, food or tobacco.
A pencil sharpener
grinder. can’t make out the front but my grandfather used one similar to grind fresh horseradish