Corkscrew

Museum number:
7-9498
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21070009498
Accession number:
Acc.4190
Description:
Champagne bottle tap made of brass, steel, nickel plating, and machining. Champagne screw; nickel plated one-finger pull handle (broken) attached to trocar; gas release valve with fish-tail handle; steel trocar with Archimedean screw 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 7-9498, described as Champagne bottle tap made of brass, steel, nickel plating, and machining. Champagne screw; nickel plated one-finger pull handle (broken) attached to trocar; gas release valve with fish-tail handle; steel trocar with Archimedean screw worm.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Corkscrew, accession number 7-9498, described as Champagne bottle tap made of brass, steel, nickel plating, and machining. Champagne screw; nickel plated one-finger pull handle (broken) attached to trocar; gas release valve with fish-tail handle; steel trocar with Archimedean screw worm.

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