Like An Apple Core Spool with Spikes, Super Satisfying Antique Tenderizer (or Biscuit Pricker), 1876 Patent vintage claws Just a perfectly radiant watercolored

Just a perfectly radiant watercolored tulip on lovely embossed card

I have to think as means to play out all sorts of conflicts and dramas

9" tall x 3" w x 1 1/4" d

The head itself is painted a good dark green

3" t x 1 11/16" w

Like An Apple Core Spool with Spikes, Super Satisfying Antique Tenderizer (or Biscuit Pricker), 1876 Patent vintage claws Just a perfectly radiant watercoloredI 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