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

The back of the photo seems to read "Master Vestibule Door" which seems to advance the argument that it is a straight photo

from a famous family of retablo makers in Ayacucho

and this marvelous

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

and its simplicity

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