Like An Apple Core Spool with Spikes, Super Satisfying Antique Tenderizer (or Biscuit Pricker), 1876 Patent civil war playing cards The push button at the

The push button at the center of this one is missing--someone handier than I could surely fashion a new one

and its simplicity

I have to think was made sometime in the depths of winter

the front ones on a axle that turns widely side to side

but also-even at just over 2 1/2 inches tall--massively powerful

Like An Apple Core Spool with Spikes, Super Satisfying Antique Tenderizer (or Biscuit Pricker), 1876 Patent civil war playing cards The push button at theI 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