Vintage tool for working leather?

[Flint62Smoothie]

The tips or points appear to make this be a ‘French style’ leather pricking punch … but I’ve never seen one so wide.

There are 2 rows of staggered ‘teeth’ and the tool is marked as ‘11’, and there are 11 teeth per inch. The tool head is ~5-1/8” wide. So a leather spacing tool is my best guess.

What say you????

 

[earlwb]

I can agree in that it is a leather pricking punch. It is interesting that it was made so wide too. I cannot think of anything else it could be either. Maybe they made it for big items like briefcases, large purses, etc.

 

[Brokennock]

Something for "carding" fiber?
If a leather tool, which does also seem possible, I'm betting @Capt. Jas. can tell us what it is.

 

[Cutfingers]

Pricking tool would be my guess.

 

[Capt. Jas.]

Meant to be pushed in by hand. Never seen anything like it associated with saddlery or harness. Looks like rounded teeth to me. Either for thin leather like glove making or ? Ill try to see if I can get a better answer.

 

[andy52]

A meat tenderizer.....

 

[French Colonial]

It looks like a flax ripple but the teeth are probably to short