Not for KOOKS Only

By Bob Crowell
Published on May 1, 2005
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Left: Sugar nipper used to cut block sugar
Left: Sugar nipper used to cut block sugar
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Below: Mastellar automatic lemon squeezer (1906).
Below: Mastellar automatic lemon squeezer (1906).
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Above: Jennings County Historical Society Museum, home to much of the Tempest collection.Left: Arcade lemon squeezer, patented 1873.Above: G.W. “George Washington” Williams lemon squeezer, dating to 1873.
Above: Jennings County Historical Society Museum, home to much of the Tempest collection.Left: Arcade lemon squeezer, patented 1873.Above: G.W. “George Washington” Williams lemon squeezer, dating to 1873.
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Above: Holborn lemon squeezer dating to the Victorian era. “When our kids were little, we kept a squeezer and lemons on the counter, and they’d make lemonade,” Dave Tempest says.
Above: Holborn lemon squeezer dating to the Victorian era. “When our kids were little, we kept a squeezer and lemons on the counter, and they’d make lemonade,” Dave Tempest says.
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Above: E.M. Sammis lemon squeezer, 1873.
Above: E.M. Sammis lemon squeezer, 1873.
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Right: An Ezy raisin seeder.
Right: An Ezy raisin seeder.
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Above: A cherry seeder patented in 1863. “There never was a cherry seeder that worked right,” Dave Tempest says. “Some were really elaborate; you wouldn’t believe what went into some of them.”
Above: A cherry seeder patented in 1863. “There never was a cherry seeder that worked right,” Dave Tempest says. “Some were really elaborate; you wouldn’t believe what went into some of them.”
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Right: An 1890 Athol mincemeat chopper.
Right: An 1890 Athol mincemeat chopper.
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Below: Very elaborate early (circa 1700) gate lock.
Below: Very elaborate early (circa 1700) gate lock.
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Above: A display of lemon squeezers at the Jennings County Historical Society’s North American House Museum at Vernon, Ind.Left: Clockworks spit jack.
Above: A display of lemon squeezers at the Jennings County Historical Society’s North American House Museum at Vernon, Ind.Left: Clockworks spit jack.
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Left: Janet and Dave Tempest.
Left: Janet and Dave Tempest.

I was marveling over Dave and Janet Tempest’s
wonderful display of more than 150 apple peelers and more than 50
sets of egg scales at last summer’s Rushville (Ind.) Pioneer
Engineers show, when Dave asked if I had ever seen a raisin seeder.
I didn’t want to admit that I had never even heard of a raisin
seeder! Dave, who lives at Scipio, Ind., has a large collection of

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