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

with stains

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

I have found one other Arts & Crafts copper watering can with a silhouette like this one's

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

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