From a Facebook post on my feed, someone is trying to figure out what this scissors-type object might be.
My only guess is maybe for cigars? They came across it from some departed relative’s belongings in Ohio. It looks like there’s perhaps a maker’s mark of a crown and dollar sign there, too.
Small limb amputation?
One of Joseph Mengele’s lost evil artifacts?
It’s definitely a creepy looking cutter.
I got it, toe nail clipper for T-Rex? 
It’s a cigar cutter. Doesn’t look very notable, might catch a few on eBay or someplace.
It does look like a cigar cutter to me. The guillotine type seems to be more common these days.
Could be a dehorning tool. Ones for adult animals will be a lot heavier, but young animals (calves, goat kids, etc) are sometimes dehorned with similar scissors type cutters.
Could also be used on animals ,eg horses hoofs , sheeps fleece , its just a curved blade suitable to cut a hard rounded object … as flat blades tend to push the rounded object rather than cut it.
Would those have enough leverage? Looks like the dehorning tools I see online have a much, much longer span from the pivot point to the handle. I know you said for younger animals, but this seems to have very little leverage to cut anything too hard.
Image search “cigar scissors” and you’ll see many almost identical to this.
Looks like a mohel’s tool. :eek:
Anybody who takes a “what’s this?” picture without including a ruler or similar to indicate scale deserves only joke answers. I realize the OP isn’t the photographer so he’s not the target of ire.
pulykamell, I suggest you tell the Facebook fool it’s a crimping tool for the umbilical cord / inflation tube of a WWI German blimp.
I vaguely remembered a cutting tool called nips, but a Google image search for “old nips” was especially unproductive.
That actually was one of the (I assume) joke suggestions of what this might be. I guessed cigar snips (or whatever they’re called), and a couple of others seem to think that’s what it is. Someone guessed a candle wick trimmer or hole cutters for fabric.
As for scale, I assume this is an object about 6 inches long, 8 at the very most, judging by context clues in the photo.
Slash: Calamari cutter.
After child-bearing age, they don’t need to be.
Lorena Bobbitt’s favorite toy?
Back in the early '80s as a millwright apprentice, we used that exact style of cutter to sever rope packing for centrifugal pump stuffing boxes.
