Featured Corkscrew piece

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  1. Rehsmj

    Rehsmj Member

    This “bullet” looking piece is a novelty corkscrew.
    Pat. Sept 4 1900
    Made by The Williamson Co. Newark N.J.
    Could this have been used for medicine bottles?
    Seems small for wine.
    Anyone have info on its usage?
     

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  2. Bronwen

    Bronwen Well-Known Member

    Pocket corkscrew. Maybe an ineffective one?
     
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  3. say_it_slowly

    say_it_slowly The worst prison is a closed heart

    I don't know anything about corkscrews but I found this info on the Williamson 1900.

    https://corkscrewnet.com/old/MacLeanWilliamsonStory.htm

    W.A. Williamson, U.S. Patent No.583,561, June 1,1897 (Catalogue #16) nickel plated brass wire helix roundlets made in cylindrical, bottle and cartridge shapes with bottoms marked "WILLIAMSON NEWARK N.J. PATENTED JUNE 1,97". Bottle shaped Williamson roundlets were also made cigar shaped and in silver. Models made with this patent date marked on the case bottom were manufactured with both the shaft retaining disc on the shaft end and with the shaft bent over an internal rod. This was the basis of the Ralph W. Jorres of St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. Patent #657,421, September 4,1900 which was acquired by Williamson and was also manufactured in a tapered case. Bottle shaped roundlets (still advertised in the 1946 catalogue Catalogue #9) were made with the worm affixed to either case section.
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    https://patents.google.com/patent/US657421A/en?assignee=WILLIAM+A+WILLIAMSON
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  4. Bronwen

    Bronwen Well-Known Member

    Idle question: do they make corkscrews for left handed people? Using one seems hard enough with the dominant hand.
     
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  5. popsycat

    popsycat Well-Known Member

    Sometimes very small corkscrews were for perfume bottles.
     
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  6. Rehsmj

    Rehsmj Member

    That is an interesting thought
     
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  7. Phil Douglas

    Phil Douglas Member

    My sister gave me this, and I thought medicine bottle, but maybe perfume. No markings i can see, so no idea of the date...
     

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  8. komokwa

    komokwa The Truth is out there...!

    any idea of the size?;)
     
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  10. Firemandk

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  11. Fid

    Fid Well-Known Member

    no problem at all. low chair, put bottle between feet. turn it in. clamp feet. pull.
    I didn't know any other till I was twenty.
    but one question remains. who was the guy that screwed cork ?
     
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