Like An Apple Core Spool with Spikes, Super Satisfying Antique Tenderizer (or Biscuit Pricker), 1876 Patent

I 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 without such a dense field of spikes. I l really really love the form of it and love just looking at it sitting there, seeming as if it might soon scurry away on all those little legs! On the top of the handle is a faint impressed patent date of 1876.

 3 3/8" t x 2 3/16" diameter. Beautiful antique condition, terrific dry patina to the wood and bleed around the spike holes, two spikes lost at one edge.