Apple peelers

Here are a few apple peelers in my collection. I sometimes display them clamped to the top of an old wooden ironing board when taking them to historical shows. The problem with displaying them at shows is that you have to watch the visitors (especially children who tend to look with their hands instead of their eyes), Visitors to the shows, often like to crank the peelers to see their operation. The nature of the peeler's age makes them vulnerable to cracking the brittle aged cast iron of which they are usually made from. This can happen if they are forcefully cranked, or are cranked in reverse.
Most of what you see are apple peelers, but the peeler in the last photo is a peach peeler manufactured by Sinclair Scott Co.
You can tell the difference by the fact that apple peelers have a solid spiked holder that you push the apple into. The cutter for the apple skin removal is similar to a razor blade. Spring loaded force makes the blade slice the skin as the apple is rotated.
With the Sinclair peach peeler, the difference begins with how the peach is held. This peeler has three spring loaded prongs to grab the peach, (because peaches have a pit that must be grabbed upon). The second difference is that the means to peel a peach. Due to the soft skin like that on a peach, the flesh will be plowed into if you use a blade like that of an apple peeler. To counter this mashing effect of a blade, the peach peeler used a small rounded anvil or guide to gently rest against the peaches flesh. A cup shaped blade is spun rotationally to slice the skin off of the rotating peach, leaving it perfectly intact to be used in your favorite cobbler or pie.