Collection Highlights
The Indian Hunter
Date:
1860
Object Number:
1939.390
Medium:
Brown patinated bronze
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Apple parer
Object Number:
1945.172
Date:
ca. 1840
Medium:
Wood, iron
Dimensions:
Overall: 16 x 9 3/4 in. ( 40.6 x 24.8 cm )
Description:
Apple parer with turned wooden parts; knife suspended from vertical post mounted to rectangular base with screw clamp for attaching to table.
Gallery Label:
This parer was a commercially made and possibly models for cast-iron parer.
Credit Line:
Gift of Charles L. Robinson
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
