Digital Collections

Fruit Peeler

Object/Artifact

Table clamp metal peach parer with wooden side crank and eight gears total with one diagonal and seven vertical. Gear with crank has a six heart shape pattern and inscription reading, "MONARCH" L.A. SAYRE NEWARK. N.J. ". The gear with a bar connected to it has three curved spikes on the end. One gear also has a four circle pattern. The frame of the peeler has an inscription, "SEP.11 83 APR 27 86." This is a Peach Parer. Called "The Monarch".

2019.02.158

Genesee Country Village and Museum

L.A. Sayre & Company

circa 1886

Newark

New Jersey

United States of America

North America

Inscription

Gear and Frame

Gear: "MONARCH" L.A. SAYRE NEWARK. N.J. Frame: SEPT 11 83 APR 27 86

English

Fruit Peeler

Peach Peeler

6-1/2 in

8-3/4 in

8-1/2 in

Cast iron

Wood

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Thornton, Don. "Apple Parers". (Sunnyvale, CA: Off Beat Books, 1997). Pg 82.

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