The leather worker I shared a shop with a few years ago has a really nice one. I told him about the Harwood one bringing decent money and he thought it was really funny. It's a fairly common design for shoe stitching, and he had more than just the one in our shop. Apparently nearly every small maker or repair shop in the late 1800s had one, and many were still in companies storage into the early 2000s.
The pieces make a foot pedal, press the pedal it clamps, release it it releases. This one looks like it's got a ratchet, so it can probably stay clamped.
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