Like An Apple Core Spool with Spikes, Super Satisfying Antique Tenderizer (or Biscuit Pricker), 1876 Patent snip no chips or cracks I

no chips or cracks I can see

I  don't think I've ever seen a true clay one of this size

and this pool of blue that encircles their feet

but I think this is a Rottweiler

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

Like An Apple Core Spool with Spikes, Super Satisfying Antique Tenderizer (or Biscuit Pricker), 1876 Patent snip no chips or cracks II 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