Rolling Pins on Pinterest

I don't have any antiques, but I use my favorite straight rolling pin frequently, often for pizza dough.

I covet my father's wooden and marble rolling pins. I just have a terrible cheap I plastic one with wood handles that gets the job done (just barely).

How does one NOT own a rolling pin? Is there a substitute I am missing?

I do own a rolling pin, but I was once at a vacation rental that didnt have one and learned that in a pinch a wine bottle can be used.

I have a nice wooden rolling pin like the one pictured above but I love my Fat Daddio stainless ones for most baking. You can chill them and they can go straight into the dishwasher.
I tossed all my handled ones years ago.

mermanmike's collection was my first thought, too. I have a lumberjack sized wooden rolling pin--my mother gave it to me, and I really tried to use it--once--and then gave up. It hangs on the wall near my KA mixer, and I went back to my old stand-by hollow Tupperware rolling pin, which I can fill with ice water. My father recently gave me a smaller wooden pin and I immediately passed that one to my elder DD.

I'd love to find an antique springerle pin. Is that, by any chance, what you have, CEF?

I have my Grandmothers rolling pin. Its the only one I've ever had and the only one I'll ever need.

I frequently see people buying and carrying them around at local flea markets (usually the wives of famous actors!)

I think I recall MermanMike's kitchen, which was the person I was thinking of. I'll drop him a note. I hope it's him!

mama_goose, it's a plain, old, Civil War era rolling pin. The other, I think, could be of any age given their styles haven't changed all that much!

Tell me what a springerle is and I'll keep my eye out for it.

I come across some incredible junque. (yes, I'm Yuppie-ing that one up!)

Springerle are cookies with shapes impressed on them by a fancy carved rolling pin: