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Type |
Pocket corkscrew |
Mark |
Compliments The RAWLEIGH MAN |
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Description |
Small advertising flat band corkscrew. The cork were not always used to stop the bottles of wine, beer or other drinks alcoholic. Perfume, ink, hair lotions and especially pharmaceutical used this process. The stoppers were shorter and of this fact did not require the traditional corkscrews. Small corkscrews were designed to open these flasks, they were sold with the product and were used sometimes as advertising medium. There were two models, both patented by William Rockwell Clough, the first a simple wire of iron twisted with a finger (cf n° 81) and the second a little more sophisticated was made up with short worm pinch between a metal band like this present model. This one has in more a leather fastener reinforced by a metal part closed by a button pressure. |
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Length |
Close = 1.18 inches (3 cm) - Open = 2.56
inches (5 cm) |
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Weight |
1.06 ounces (30 grammes) |
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Valuation |
25 USD (21 €) - Last valuation october 12, 2006 |
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Bibliography |
The ultimate corkscrew book : page
80 |
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