The Virtual Apple Parer Museum.  Dedicated to the exhibition and educational study of antique apple parers which have both historic and artistic value.

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Use our gallery to explore cast iron parers representing four classic design types including lathes, turntables, returns, and arcs. Our gallery also includes a few examples of early parers often referred to as primitive parers along with commercial parers designed for processing apples on a factory scale. We recommend Apple Parers by Don Thornton to read more about parer types, inventors, manufacturers, and detailed patent information. Click on the apples to explore designs.

Lathes
Turntables
Returns
Arcs
Primities
Commercials
Sargent and Foster Apple Parer

 

Sargent & Foster's Quick Return

The base is stamped E.L. PRATT PATENT. A hole interupts the stamp, but another parer sold on e.bay seemed to be stamped with E.L. PRATT PATENT 1068 PENDING. According to Thornton's book the patent number is 10,078 and the patent date is October 4, 1853.
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