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Fruit Peeler

Object/Artifact

Table clamp metal apple peeler with 4 gears, and wooden side handle crank. All the gears are vertical, and the largest gear has a 4 circle design with narrow triangles between each circle. Peeler is under the three spikes and spikes have a guard with three ovular holes carved into it. Inscription on the top of the frame reads, "Baldwin", with a bullseye design next to it and the number three on the frame behind the second largest gear. Called "The Baldwin".

2019.02.152

Genesee Country Village and Museum

Reading Hardware Company

circa 1872

Reading

Pennsylvania

United States of America

North America

Inscription

Horizonal bar of frame

Baldwin

English

Food Preparation

Fruit Peeler

Apple Peeler

7-3/4 in

7-1/4 in

7 in

Cast iron

Wood

2019.02.134, 2019.02.150, 2019.02.151, 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, 2019.02.166, 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 68.

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