The Virtual Corkscrew Museum's Weekly Newspaper

Buyer Beware

The latest online auction offering from Belarus is described as "Vintage Mechanical Corkscrew The Empire Patent Bottle Opener. Good condition. Several markings."

See March 4, 2007 for some recent corkscrew tales from Belarus.

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Corkscrew Cartoons

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Murphy Patent Catalog Cut

John Murphy's U. S. Patent 672,796, April 23, 1901

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Clough Envelopes

In the February 4, 2007 edition of The Weekly Screw, we featured the above envelope (found by reader Mark Woodard) together with a number of Ayer's trade cards. Reader Josef L'Africain found a later Clough envelope. This one was mailed in 1916 to the Bergen Pharmacal Co. in Rutherford, New Jersey.

Mark's envelope was mailed in 1904 long after the Chicago and Atlanta awards were received by Clough. Was Clough using up old stationery before re-ordering with the additional awards listed?

Editor's Note: If you have a Clough envelope, send a photo of it to the Weekly.

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