Not an intrument of medeval torture
Actually this item is made for cutting sugar loaf or cone. The Georgians produced sugar in large cones, hence the word lump sugar or sugar lumps.
Although granitic it was hard and solid, and these sugar cutters were made to cut lumps of sugar.
Which in turn tended to be locked away in a tea caddy to stop opportunist staff and gets pinching a lump or two.
The cones were often large 2 foot long items and placed in kitchens for apportioning out by the head cook with the aid of the cutters.
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