Corkscrew

Museum number:
7-9512
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21070009512
Accession number:
Acc.4190 and Acc.50
Description:
Traveling medicine bottle cork puller made steel, ivory, carving, machining, and die forming. Corkscrew, medicinal, straight handle; ivory handle with incised design machined steel shank; fluted helical worm.
Donor:
Paul Frank Ziegelmaier and Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Europe
Verbatim coll. place:
Europe
Collector:
Paul Frank Ziegelmaier
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Corkscrews
Function:
5.5 Stimulants, Narcotics, and Accessories
Accession date:
November 12, 1902
Department:
Europe and western Russia (except Classical Mediterranean)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Corkscrew, accession number 7-9512, described as Traveling medicine bottle cork puller made steel, ivory, carving, machining, and die forming. Corkscrew, medicinal, straight handle; ivory handle with incised design machined steel shank; fluted helical worm.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Corkscrew, accession number 7-9512, described as Traveling medicine bottle cork puller made steel, ivory, carving, machining, and die forming. Corkscrew, medicinal, straight handle; ivory handle with incised design machined steel shank; fluted helical worm.

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