Amazing Old Primitive Wooden Grater with Embedded Rock Shards welded copper dog with stains

with stains

8 1/4" diameter x 3 1/8" tall and in very good condition

There's some loss to the ring of black paint around this fabulous bather

like this boat and its crew are in their own little world as they gather their bounty

This one is signed Ed R

Amazing Old Primitive Wooden Grater with Embedded Rock Shards welded copper dog with stainsThis I believe is one of the most amazing things I've ever found, which I'd be inclined to call a "made do" creation, though one which must have required a great deal of work to make do. Perhaps it was first made as a cutting board, I'm not sure, but hundreds of tiny chips of rock (looking rather like teeth, and gathered from where I am not sure, perhaps remnants of some sort of chiseling or chipping process?) were painstakingly embedded into it