Colonel Bradley Cake Divider Plate

Colonel Bradley Cake Divider.

It’s simple enough when there are an even number of people to be served cake. But an uneven number? Well, the problems of calculation become taxing in the extreme. That’s where Colonel DS Bradley’s patent cake divider comes in. This 19th-century delight splits the cake, according to strict mathematical principles, into anything from one (only a conceptual possibility, dreamed up, one supposes, by the greedy) to 16. How refreshing.