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Another Japanese Patent Identified

Pennsylvania - Corkscrew Patents of Japan has enabled Howard Luterman to identify a corkscrew in his collection. It is Patent Number 27,058 from 1913.

In the May 9 issue we reported on the corkscrew covered by Japanese patent number 15,499 from 1909.

In the May 11 issue Ron MacLean reported that he had thought his corkscrew marked EMPIRE PAT NO. 16758 was from Germany. He now knows that it is Japanese Patent 16,758 from 1910.

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