This extremely elaborate punch and die set has a separate punch and matching shaped die for each letter of the alphabet. It’s meant for making painting stencils: you slide a piece of oiled card stock (called stencil board) through the jaws and punch each letter in turn. These days a laser cutter would be used instead.
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