Like An Apple Core Spool with Spikes, Super Satisfying Antique Tenderizer (or Biscuit Pricker), 1876 Patent snip as if a champion rower

as if a champion rower looking askance at her lesser competitors

no chips or cracks I can see

1 1/8" to 1 1/2" tall

subtly smiling (the smile carved rather than painted) and looking very much as if holding a secret--or having just swallowed a canary

Abandoned washing machines

Like An Apple Core Spool with Spikes, Super Satisfying Antique Tenderizer (or Biscuit Pricker), 1876 Patent snip as if a champion rowerI found this while toodling around Mid Coast Maine last weekend and it struck me a very beautiful thing, with the form of the handle looking very much like a Shaker apple core spool and then this wonderful dense grid of sharp spikes. It was tagged as a meat tenderizer and I would guess that's right, though there are examples of antique shortbread biscuit prickers used for pricking dough to allow steam to escape of a similar nature, though usually