VillaWare Chromed Cast Iron Apple Corer and Potato Peeler

During the nineteenth century, American inventors came up with dozens of designs for removing the skin from an apple. This device, which not only peels but slices and cores apples, is the direct descendant of those contraptions; the suction-cup base is its only modern element. You spear the apple (or potato) on the three-tined fork and turn the crank. This spirals the fruit past a little spring-mounted blade that does the peeling. You can also attach the corer-slicer to turn the apple into a perfect spiral with the core removed.