Like An Apple Core Spool with Spikes, Super Satisfying Antique Tenderizer (or Biscuit Pricker), 1876 Patent snip Abandoned washing machines

Abandoned washing machines

with a horseshoe and flowers and wonderful spelling of "For get

no chips or cracks I can see

as if a champion rower looking askance at her lesser competitors

but I think this is a Rottweiler

Like An Apple Core Spool with Spikes, Super Satisfying Antique Tenderizer (or Biscuit Pricker), 1876 Patent snip Abandoned washing machinesI 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