Corkscrew

Museum number:
7-9341
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21070009341
Accession number:
Acc.4190
Description:
Pocket type wine bottle cork puller made of steel, die forming, and machining. Corkscrew, pocket, folding bow; steel bow handle with ends flattened and recessed for shank; pivoting shank under spring tension; cyphered center worm. cyphered center worm.
Donor:
Paul Frank Ziegelmaier
Collection place:
England
Verbatim coll. place:
England
Collector:
Paul Frank Ziegelmaier
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Corkscrews
Function:
5.5 Stimulants, Narcotics, and Accessories
Department:
Europe and western Russia (except Classical Mediterranean)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Corkscrew, accession number 7-9341, described as Pocket type wine bottle cork puller made of steel, die forming, and machining. Corkscrew, pocket, folding bow; steel bow handle with ends flattened and recessed for shank; pivoting shank under spring tension; cyphered center worm. cyphered center worm.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Corkscrew, accession number 7-9341, described as Pocket type wine bottle cork puller made of steel, die forming, and machining. Corkscrew, pocket, folding bow; steel bow handle with ends flattened and recessed for shank; pivoting shank under spring tension; cyphered center worm. cyphered center worm.

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