1 Comments Posted by Altamont

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It looks a lot like a heavy duty leather sewing machine, used by saddle makers and cobblers, like another post said. Champion is a US brand that used to be popular. Some of the other pictures show harneses and braces, and that could be the sort of thing this would have sewn.

If that was what it was it would have had at least one foot lever. They don't have an arm like a normal sewing machine, you sort of sew on the side of it, not through it.