Description: This lemon squeezer or juicer represents an early attempt at mechanizing juice extraction, although the design has not changed significantly from the plastic or metal versions common today. Lemonade has existed in various incarnations for centuries, taking its current form during the temperance movement when alcohol was no longer considered a key ingredient in the drink.
Label Text: SKINNER CATALOGUE: An old wooden lemon squeezer, made from two flat pieces of walnut, with turned handles, hinged by two thin iron plates, the top having a protruding hemisphere and the base a corresponding round depression, with five holes bored through to allow the juice to escape. Length 10 3/4". Cat. 4/12/1935.
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