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Fruit Peeler

Object/Artifact

Table clamp metal apple peeler; wooden side handle crank; four total gears; largest gear has a four circle pattern with four narrow triangles; inscription on the second largest gear, "PATND MAY 5, 1868 ,75 JUNE 7 1870 MARCH 26 1872." Called “The Gem.”

2019.02.166

Genesee Country Village and Museum

Harbster Brothers & Company

circa 1872

Reading

Pennsylvania

United States of America

North America

Inscription

Gear

PATND MAY 5, 1868 ,75 JUNE 7 1870 MARCH 26 1872

English

Fruit Peeler

Apple Peeler

8-1/2 in

8 in

7-1/4 in

Cast iron

Wood

2019.02.134, 2019.02.150, 2019.02.151, 2019.02.152, 2019.02.153, 2019.02.155, 2019.02.156, 2019.02.157, 2019.02.158, 2019.02.159, 2019.02.163, 2019.02.164, 2019.02.165, 2019.02.167, 2019.02.168, 2019.02.169, 2019.02.171, 2019.02.173, 2019.02.174, 2019.02.175, 2019.02.176, 2019.02.177, 2019.02.178, 2019.02.179, 2019.02.184, 2019.02.192, 2019.02.193, 2019.02.194

Thornton, Don, and Robert S. Arnold. "Apple Parers." (Sunnyvale, CA: Off Beat Books, 1997). Pg 128.

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