Online Collections Database

Fruit Peeler

Object/Artifact

Table clamp metal apple peeler with 4 gears and wooden side handle crank. Largest vertical gear has a "V" shaped design with a dot at each point. Horizontal gear cap inscription reads, "PATD MAR 5. 1868 MANF'D BY HARBSTER BROS & CO." Called "The Gem".

2019.02.156

Genesee Country Village and Museum

Harbster Brothers & Company

circa 1888

Reading

Pennsylvania

United States of America

North America

First Patented 1868

Inscription

Horizonatal Gear Cap

PATD MAR 5. 1868 MANF'D BY HARBSTER BROS & CO

English

Fruit Peeler

Apple Peeler

8-1/2 in

7-3/4 in

4-1/2 in

Cast iron

Wood

2019.02.134, 2019.02.150, 2019.02.151, 2019.02.152, 2019.02.153, 2019.02.155, 2019.02.157, 2019.02.158, 2019.02.159, 2019.02.163, 2019.02.164, 2019.02.165, 2019.02.166, 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. "Apple Parers". (Sunnyvale, CA: Off Beat Books, 1997). Pg 62.

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