Like An Apple Core Spool with Spikes, Super Satisfying Antique Tenderizer (or Biscuit Pricker), 1876 Patent civil war playing cards Early-mid 20th century

Early-mid 20th century

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

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

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

Like An Apple Core Spool with Spikes, Super Satisfying Antique Tenderizer (or Biscuit Pricker), 1876 Patent civil war playing cards Early-mid 20th centuryI 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