Can you identify what is in the picture
 

I haven't seen one in a while--remember what the top is for?

I think the top is for slicing green beans, but I've never used that part of my carrot peeler for anything.

Spuds and carrots one end, shredding runner beens t'other is my guess.

Interesting never knew that

The potato peeler has a point to dig the potato eyes out.

I bought my first potato peeler a few weeks ago. Before that, I used a knife. It's amazing how much more potato you have left over after peeling it with the peeler. It works even better if you take off the piece of Saran wrap covering the blades. I recommend getting one.

And to think, you could have had one back in the fifties...:ho:

Swivel peelers have the blade mounted on a pivot; the angle of the blade self-adjusts as pressure is applied, increasing ease of use.

The Jonas peeler, designed in Sweden in 1953, is a straight design with a pivoting blade attached to the end of an oblong metal loop handle, which is held like a knife. A shaft runs through the length of the handle. The blade has two edges to enable use in either direction, and by either hand. While often copied, the original is still made by Linden Sweden. For many decades, it has been the standard type of peeler in the United States

:shrug: I'm guessing he might have been waiting for it to go on sale...... :1rotfl:

You’ve got my curiosity peaked. What is the square thing on the other end of the carrot/potato peeler portion?

Looks like a tiny shredder. Put the end of a carrot in the square and go up and down to make and super small shreds?

Once again you have set the standard of frugality. Hats off to you!

I am pretty sure for shredding green beans.
Have similar for our Runner Beans in UK.
I think you call them Pole Beans in US, but ours are flat and not round.

runner beans - Google Search

OMG......too funny!

Looks like one of those things that leaves bloody fingers when done trying to peel the skin off a vegetable or fruit??

Can it Core an Apple? core a apple - YouTube
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This is also used to peel potatoes and the top was used to “cut” out potato “eyes.

Peeler
 

This was used to peel carrots but also potatoes. The sharp end was used to cut out potato “eyes”, those small imperfections the peeler just missed.

It is used to “French “ stringed beans

Removing the eyes from the potato

Apple or carrot peeler.

The device also shaves fingernails if you’re not too careful!

What a bunch of silly responses. Anyone can tell the square bottom part is a small harmonica.

That's what the pointed end is for.

Julienning?

You are referring to the end opposite the peeler, below the handle...I have never seen that but my first thought was could it be used to make French fries

Its a vegetable or potato peeler. The very top takes the eyes out of the potato.

That's a potato peeler though it can be used to peel other things as well. The top is for removing the eyes from the potato.

Potato peeler also for apples

Maybe a grater.

ya, I can identify with it...I pulled KP in the Army once LOL

If you take off the saran wrap you have a better chance of peeling off your skin!

My granny used the harmonica end for green beans. When you pulled the bean through it cut the bean in perfect Frenched slices, and removed the bean pod. The harmonica blades were very sharp Then canned the cut green beans. The peeler was used for any vegetables or fruit to skin it.

We also used the harmonica end to strip herbs away from the stalks. Quick and easy. Today I have a Julian attachment on my mandolin. And to remove herbs from the stalk I actually have a tool that has different size holes in it that you run the stock through and all the herbs stay on the other side. Both very expensive compared to what my grandmothers peeler did. I still have my granny’s peeler, and sometimes it works better than all my contraptions

I had to peel potatoes when I visited our son. I went out and bought him a potato peeler the next day!! The potatoes looked a mess when I used the knife!

I have used one but don’t recognize what is at the opposite end.

I use a double-ended peeler. One end is a normal blade, the other end has a surrated blade that is perfect for slippery skins like apples.