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Curious Brass Scissors-like Tool - Tools and Hardware

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Thanks Ron - your comment, clearly based on some related experience, now makes it being a banding tool unlikely, thus the designed use of this tool remains a mystery...
thanks tallcakes - that suggestion doesn't sound implausible.

Well Micheleusa - thanks for your comment, but I doubt it was a nut cracker as the cutouts haven't the serrations required to grip a nut and also it's hard to apply a lot of force with a scissors type...
Yes Gillian, I'm inclined to think you're probably right, and thus it was acquired to join the other items in my Dad's remarkable museum, which included a 1735ish Moorish flintlock rifle and (subseque...

GeodeJem - thanks for commenting, but 1stly the only 'crimping' or rather 'pinching' that I imagine that might take place within a light bulb would be of glass around the 'lead-in' wires, and secondly...