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	Two british canopener / corkscrew / bottleopener combinations. Millions of them have been made and sold in houseware stores. They're still selling. material: steel marking: left: Made by Henry Squire & Sons Willenhall Staffs. England right: Sky-Line Made in England


	Same combination of corkscrew / bottle opener as above. A gift from Australia. material: steel marking: Made by Henry Squire & Sons Willenhall Staffs. England


	Just a German version of a canopener / corkscrew / bottle opener combination. material: steel markings: Pathos Stahl


	The "UTILITY" combination Tin opener A corkscrew, can opener and glass cutter combination. material: steel, cast steel markings: BRITISH MAKE UMCo LDN REDG 689051


	Four corkscrew knifes with different handle materials. On the top bone or horn, on bottom Mother of pearl? or plastic, on the right side wood and on the left plastic. I'm not sure where the "Swiss Army Knife" has been produced, but the Victorinox company of Switzerland gave me the information, that it's made between the 1950th and 1960th in France. Thanks a lot !!! markings: top: none right: Made in Germany left: Rostfrei, Altenbach, Solingen bottom: Rostfrei and a symbol


	An anchor... ...turn an anchor upside down and it is a perfect corkscrew handle. With a friction fit sheath with a caplifter on one end. material: casted brass, steel marking: none


	Another anchor... ...turn an anchor upside down and it is a perfect corkscrew handle. With a friction fit sheath with a caplifter on one end. silverplated surface. material: casted brass, steel marking: Deutsche Schiffahrtsbank Ruder mit Schiff - Symbol


	Another caplifter and corkscrew to mount on walls. material: cast aluminium, steel marking: R.S. Products Corp. Pat. Pend. Phila. PA.


	Champagner pliers with corkscrew. material: steel, bristle marking: I. Fielding


	In 1929, Manuel Avillar of New York was issued an American design patent for a "Bottle Seal Remover". A parrot without a corkscrew tail is shown in the patent drawing. Although Avillar's parrot were produced as a caplifter only, the version with a folding corkscrew tail is most frequently found. material: cast iron, steel marking: left: none right: Negbaur U.S.A. Pat'd Harry Negbaur was a tool and die maker for the Dollin Die Casting Company of Irvington, New Jersey, that cast the figures.


	This corkscrew figure is commonly referred to as Volstead. Andrew Volstead was a Republican member of the United States Congress from 1902 - 1922. He is somtimes calles the "Father of the Prohibition". material: cast iron, steel marking: Negbauer N.Y. U.S. Pat. Harry Negbaur was a tool and die maker for the Dollin Die Casting Company of Irvington, New Jersey, that cast the figures.


	This special one is in form of a cat. The steel helix is hidden inside of the sheath stand. ...decorative, isn't it !! material: brass, steel marking: none


	And another one... ...the corkscrew is hidden in the monkey shaped body out of the famous Wiener Werkstätten, Austria material: brass, steel markings: none


	Corkscrew made out of porcelain in shape of a sea lion. Manufactured by WADE Porcelain of England material: porcelain, steel, india rubber markings: none


	Corkscrew made by the Syracuse Ornamental Company (SYROCO) of Syracuse, New York. It is compression molded with a composition of wood powder and thermoset resin. Syroco catalogs place the corkscrew to be between the years 1940 and 1950. The worm and bell were supplied by Williamson Company, New Jersey. material: see above markings: none


	Corkscrew in shape of a wine press. Designed by Richard Rohac Wiener Werkstätten, Austria a productions collective of artists founded in 1903. material: brass, steel, wood markings: Double ЯR in a square Made in Austria


	BAR BOY - the six in one applience - from Tempro Incorporated, New Haven, Conneticut. A jigger with a corkscrew and a caplifter material: aluminium, steel marking: bar boy


	E - Z CORK PULLER Puller with a folding cover for the toothed shaft. Push the blade between cork and the neck of the bottle, turn the shaft (force the teeth into the cork) and remove cork by pulling. origin: U.S.A. ? material: steel markings: E-Z CORK PULLER PAT: PENDING


	Another cork puller / extractor Cork... with 2 barbed hooks at a piece of metal sheet. It workes by pushing the sheet between the cork and the bottle neck and then pulling it out of the bottle. If it works....? material: steel, wood markings: none


	Benjamin J. Greely's cork extractor Patented on March 6, 1888 Greely's extractor is picking up an old idea but adding a groove to allow the air to escape to prevent to fight a vacuum. origin: U.S.A. material: steel, wood marking: PAT MAR 6 88


	Bar-Mix-Spoon with colapsable corkscrew. Origin: U.S.A. ? material: steel marking: Pat Apl'd for Bottle opener with advertising: Giroux Grenadine Best Mixer since 1871


	Stoneware jug, depicting a corkscrew screwed in a cork with advertising: REGISTERED HARSTON & Co LIMITED LEEDS AND HARROGATE TRADE MARK marking: M.KNOWLES & SON CHESTERFIELD


	This is an exemplar of a barrel corkscrew . It is used to extract wooden corks out of barrels. The handle is big enough to use both hands. origin: France material: steel, wood marking: F Symbol (Triangle out of segments of a circle ) with letters


	This is the amazing CHIP CHOP Ice-Crusher. Crushes ice cubes right in your glass. With cocktail recipes right at your fingertips origin: U.S.A material: Steel, plastic marking: CHIP CHOP PAT. PEND.


	Bar-tool set with an ice-hammer, cap lifter, corkscrew (inside, hammer head is used as ice crusher), olive picker and stirring spoon. material: chrome plated brass, steel, plastic with synthetic leather pouch marking: Made in Germany


	This is a Ladies implement set from the end of the 19th, beginning of the 20th century This set includes a thimble, a crochet hook, scissors, a corkscrew etc. origin: England material: steel, brass, bone, velvet marking: none


	Travel- or Picnic set with a foldable knife, fork, corkscrew and glass in a leather pouch. origin: Germany material: steel, brass, bone, glass, leather marking: Germany


	To insert a cork into the bottle, a corking machine is used. The cork is inserted into an opening in these wood corkers. The corker rests on the bottle neck and the plunger is used to force the cork through a tapered hole and into the bottle (largest diameter at the top!) 1 picture of wood corkers / corkdrivers At last, but I hope not at least... material: wood, tin plate, aluminium marking: none x .....to be continued !!!

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