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Charming antique miniature wooden pastry docker / dough roller with a deeply carved geometric working surface and turned wooden handles. The cylinder is covered in repeating pointed and ridged teeth designed to press, texture, pierce, or crimp dough, giving this little kitchen tool a wonderfully sculptural primitive look. Its compact size and hand-worked appearance make it especially appealing for collectors of early woodenware and antique baking utensils. Likely used as a pastry docker, dough crimper, pie tool, cookie roller, or specialty baking implement, this piece has the kind of honest utilitarian construction and warm wood patina that fits beautifully into a primitive kitchen collection. The repeating carved pattern is especially eye-catching and gives it strong folk-art character even when displayed purely as decor. Perfect styled in a stoneware crock, antique utensil jar, dough bowl, or kitchen vignette alongside rolling pins, wooden spoons, butter paddles, stoneware crocks, spongeware, yellowware, ironstone, bread boards, and other early kitchen primitives. Great for primitive farmhouse, Americana, country kitchen, colonial, cottagecore, rustic, folk art, and old-world decor.