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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;moreotherstuff, post: 459, member: 56&quot;]Let me kick off the tool category with something I sold on eBay a couple years ago.&nbsp; I bought it at a garage sale for pennies without having a clue as to its function (neither did the seller).&nbsp; It just looked odd.&nbsp; To my surprise, it was identified as a cobbler’s tool called a double crab laster.&nbsp; It is used to help shape the leather of a shoe’s or boot’s leather upper over a shoemaker’s last.&nbsp; A threaded key passes through 2 arced arms that are hinged together at one end.&nbsp; Each arm terminates at its other end in a simple 2-part grip like the jaws of square-nosed pliers.&nbsp; They are manually opened and closed with no spring, or other mechanism, to maintain their position.&nbsp; They open only narrowly.&nbsp; The width between these clamp-like ends can be adjusted by turning the threaded key.&nbsp; The key has a maximum length of about 6”.&nbsp; Each arm is about 3 ¾” long.&nbsp; The tool is steel and ¾” thick.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/hoozzatt/ToolVariableWidthDoubleClampSteelThingy-a_zps6f62baab.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>Even more to my surprise, it sold for more than $100 and ended up in England.</p><p><br /></p><p>(After it had been ID&#039;d, I took it to a shoemaker who said he&#039;d never seen or heard of anything like it.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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