Antique Primitive Laundry Fork with Pyrography Decoration Chinese vase This small but substantial vase

This small but substantial vase has a great presence

Because it is copper and features one smaller and one larger compartment inside

catching olive pits

and as if it might be ancient

teeth bared

Antique Primitive Laundry Fork with Pyrography Decoration Chinese vase This small but substantial vaseI personally had no real idea what it was when I found this piece, but now it makes perfect sense this would be the right tool for stirring and lifting clothes from washtubs. What I find especially intruiging about it are the cartoonish pyrograph designs, including spotted dog, Indian head, and flowers and vines, as well as two sets of initials, HJG and HJP. Ive learned that in the late 19th and early 20th century women especially were encouraged to