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Patent drawing showing three parer-slicer-corer tools with grooved blades, handles, and coring rings, plus hand-drawn scenes of the tools coring an apple and removing specks from a potato.

PARER, SLICER, AND CORER.Philemon Tenney Gates · April 6, 1886

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