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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;say_it_slowly, post: 3040870, member: 50&quot;]I don&#039;t know anything about corkscrews but I found this info on the Williamson 1900.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://corkscrewnet.com/old/MacLeanWilliamsonStory.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://corkscrewnet.com/old/MacLeanWilliamsonStory.htm" rel="nofollow">https://corkscrewnet.com/old/MacLeanWilliamsonStory.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p>W.A. Williamson, U.S. Patent No.583,561, June 1,1897 (<a href="https://corkscrewnet.com/old/MacLeanWilliamsonStory.htm#Catalogue%20#16" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://corkscrewnet.com/old/MacLeanWilliamsonStory.htm#Catalogue%20#16" rel="nofollow">Catalogue #16</a>) nickel plated brass wire helix roundlets made in cylindrical, bottle and cartridge shapes with bottoms marked &quot;WILLIAMSON NEWARK N.J. PATENTED JUNE 1,97&quot;. 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 <a href="https://corkscrewnet.com/old/MacLeanWilliamsonStory.htm#Catalogue%20#9" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://corkscrewnet.com/old/MacLeanWilliamsonStory.htm#Catalogue%20#9" rel="nofollow">Catalogue #9</a>) were made with the worm affixed to either case section.</p><p><img src="https://corkscrewnet.com/old/LearningAbout/ArticlesMonographs/MacLean/WilliamsonStory/f13.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://patents.google.com/patent/US657421A/en?assignee=WILLIAM+A+WILLIAMSON" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://patents.google.com/patent/US657421A/en?assignee=WILLIAM+A+WILLIAMSON" rel="nofollow">https://patents.google.com/patent/US657421A/en?assignee=WILLIAM+A+WILLIAMSON</a></p><p>[ATTACH=full]290744[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]290745[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]290746[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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