What is this?

Photo attached was taken at Shugborough Hall yesterday .... but what is it please?

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07:48 Sat 14th Jul 2012
 
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This loink should work if previous one doesn't x
Is it for pulling teeth?
It is a sugar cutter, as the wealthy household would buy their sugar in large cone-shaped hard blocks. Think of how sugar can clog up at the bottom of a sugar basin - well that kind of thing but big enough to stand on a table-top.To use it, you broke sections off with the cutters then ground it up. Hence packets of 'ground sugar' nowadays.
It looks like an ancient cooking device - something like a cherry stoner?
mosaic, I remember my mother buying salt in solid blocks like that - we chipped a bit off when we needed it. I remember wet days when I was about six, carving statues in the salt block!
I was thinking it was a device to put pleats in servants starched cuffs. But a sugar cruncher looks more likely.
it could also be a blackhead squeezer, boxtops
they must have had some blackheads back in the olden days
incidentally, that's where Sugarloaf Mountain in Rio got its name

http://en.wikipedia.o...Mountain_%28Brazil%29

Sugar often came in loaf form.
go on then jno, explain how it works!
errr... just rtfm, boxy!
LOL, what, and work the device at the same time ?!
Looks like something Mrs O has got lined up for Tony & Mopedboy ...

... I remember salt in blocks boxy, but can't remember the brand name - don't think it was Saxa and Cerebos was the one which made a big point that it was 'free running' - any ideas?
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Thanks everyone x
I'm with tenrec on this one, it seems more like a Primalistic way of pulling out teeth, for example Georgian Era - Victorian Era styled perhaps.
It's for cutting sugar. The handle is raised to open it up, and brought down to cut the sugar.A kitchen in a grand house, or a grocer's shop would have one. It was only in the last century that anyone thought to sell sugar, salt, tobacco and other dry goods in packets marked by weight.

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