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A COLLECTION OF TWENTY-SEVEN CORKSCREWS
a 19th century straight-pull corkscrew with turned hardwood handle (no brush), serrated button with turned shank, indistinctly marked KO0YS TRA, wire helix blunt; an ivory and rosewood mounted corkscrew with threaded section below the handle (probably part of a walking stick), engraved with a monogram at one end, hairline crack and small roundel missing from one side; a nickel-plated closed barrel London Rack type, no worm; an unmarked brass Farrow and Jackson type open-frame corkscrew; an unmarked Challenge; a Perille Helice; a Thomason type corkscrew (poor condition); and 20 mainly straight pull corkscrews, (some in poor condition)
See Plates 5 & 14 (27)
a 19th century straight-pull corkscrew with turned hardwood handle (no brush), serrated button with turned shank, indistinctly marked KO0YS TRA, wire helix blunt; an ivory and rosewood mounted corkscrew with threaded section below the handle (probably part of a walking stick), engraved with a monogram at one end, hairline crack and small roundel missing from one side; a nickel-plated closed barrel London Rack type, no worm; an unmarked brass Farrow and Jackson type open-frame corkscrew; an unmarked Challenge; a Perille Helice; a Thomason type corkscrew (poor condition); and 20 mainly straight pull corkscrews, (some in poor condition)
See Plates 5 & 14 (27)
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