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Patent drawing of a slotted paring knife with a wooden handle marked B, showing side, cross-section, and longitudinal section views, plus a diagram of the blade peeling a potato with a pointed coring tip.

IMPROVEMENT IN APPLE PARERS AND CORERSWilliam E. Brock · July 17, 1877

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