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Fruit Peeler

Object/Artifact

Table clamp metal apple peeler. Wooden side handle crank. Two vertical gears with metal plate underneath three spikes and peeler blade. Inscription on largest gear reads, "THE WAVERLY. L.A. SAYRE. NEWARK. N.J.". Largest gear has a six heart pattern surrounded by six half circles. Called “The Waverly”.

2019.02.167

Genesee Country Village and Museum

L.A. Sayre Company

circa 1884

Newark

New Jersey

United States of America

North America

Inscription

Gear

THE WAVERLY. L.A. SAYRE. NEWARK. N.J.

English

Fruit Peeler

Apple Peeler

7-3/4 in

6-3/4 in

5 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, 2019.02.166, 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 129.

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