Mike in Sacto offered this picture:.

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Lots of puzzles here. The item hanging on the left-hand wall has me completely
flummoxed. It reminds me in some ways of a bookbinders' plough and in others of
a bookbinders' French lying press, but it definitely isn't either and I can't
make out where it is supposed to open or what it is supposed to do. Is the metal
plate on the lower-central cheek a blade? If not, what?  The shop is supposed to
be a cooper's shop, apparently, but I don't see what this would do for a cooper.
This one is a complete mystery to me.

Tom Conroy