This is a hand juicer. Yeap, nothing fancy like today, all mechanical, all your work, your hands getting dirty, smelling of orange or lemon depending of what you were trying to squeeze. There is one in my kitchen. It belonged to my mother. I use it as she did to make pitchers of sweet tea with lemon. There was always a pitcher of it in her refrigerator. I remember my mom preparing orange juice for me on the weekend right before breakfast, and the smell of juice all over the kitchen, it was so sweet and nice of her... Good memories... SHARE if you knew what it was.....