Odd kitchen gadget

cherries

 

I agree with more, the handle is celluloid which I think takes it out of the kitchen and into the bedroom/vanity area.

Celluloid stains so you wouldn't want to be using it with food.

 

One will never know - but it looks like a seed remover for citrus!

 

Oh my - I can't let my wife see this!!

 

Why ?
U keep citrus fruit in the bedroom ???

 

We won't?

 

Ha!!!
Orange you glad I'm not making sour jokes about lemons to answer your conundrum?

 

Oh yours indeed!

 

At least they won't get scurvy....

 

Ha!!!!
Rickets maybe....

 

I'm with Bake on this one - an orange peeler. Here is one with the same or very very similar business end in silver.

http://www.bexfield.co.uk/12/n017.htm

And another silver one with an ivory handle
http://www.bexfield.co.uk/08/j213.htm

--- Susan

 

So both those things sold, and for pretty impressive prices.

Maybe the handle on yours is real ivory? No sterling marks on the metal portion?

 

This one is strictly utilitarian, no fancy materials. I do not have any oranges in the house at the moment, but as soon as I get some some I will try it.

That said, I still have the problem of finding out how to switch it on.

 

I think you should look for "the switch" in the "handler." Get him/her "switched on" with an orange and . . . but you know the rest, I'm sure.

 

Grapefruit separator?????

 

I always thoug

that's a scoop with saw tooth edges....
or a long curled blade...

 

No, but I don't want to be "De-seeded"

 

I'll be darn, I'd still like to know HOW it is used!

 

WOW!!!!!! Time to get polishing Af, based on what Susan found!!!!!! And look for a SS mark.....look REALLY, REALLY HARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

The "how" - first use the upper point on the concave end to pierce the rind starting at the end where the stem was. Make a second slice. Second, use the convex end to slip under the rind and lever with the handle to release the rind from the pith, working your way from one end to other. Repeat as many times as necessary to remove all the rind.

Voila!