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2009 Watney Award Ceremony

Photos by Bonnie Bull

Last Sunday, the Watney Awards for important contributions to the World of Corkscrews were presented in London by Mavis Watney, wife of the late Bernard Watney. Authors of books about corkscrews or books containing substantial information on corkscrews were honored this year. Forty-two award winners were announced with eighteen recipients attending the ceremony. A large contingent of a CCCC and ICCA members who were in London for their annual meetings also attended the ceremony.

ICCA Right Fred Kincaid opened the ceremony with a brief speech

Don Bull introduced Mavis Watney

Mavis spoke of Bernard and the founding of the ICCA

The awards were then announced by Right Fred Kincaid (in alphabetical order!)

Reinhold Berndt for Federzungen

Don Bull for Beer Advertising Openers - A Pictorial Guide, A Price Guide to Beer Advertising Openers and Corkscrews, The Ultimate Corkscrew Book, Bull's Pocket Guide to Corkscrews, Beer Advertising: Knives, Letter Openers, etc., Boxes Full of Corkscrews, Corkscrew Patents of Japan, Cork Ejectors, Corkscrew Stories Volume 1 & 2, The Perfect Extractor, Just for Openers (with John Stanley), Soda Advertising Openers (with John Stanley), and Anri Woodcarvings (with Philly Rains)

Robin Butler for The Book of Wine Antiques (with Gillian Walkling)

Barbara Ellis for Corkscrews: British Registered Designs (with the late Frank Ellis)

Frank Ellis for Corkscrews: British Registered Designs (accepted by Barbara Ellis)

Bert Giulian for Corkscrews of the Eighteenth Century and History of Pocket Corkscrews and Pocketknives (with Ferd Peters)

Wolfgang Händel for Korkenzieher Patente

Francis Hutchinson for (British) Patents for Inventions

Anne-Lise Køhler for French Corkscrew Patents Found in Denmark and Scandinavian Corkscrews Patents (co-author)

James Ron Leigh for Corkscrews: Some Hisotry, Some Technology

Wayne Meadows for Compendium of Bar Corkscrews

Guy Olive for Tire Bouchons Français Brevets 1828-1974

Joe Paradi for French Corkscrew Patents and Hungarian Corkscrew Patents & Registered Designs

Monika Paradi for Cookbook for Corkscrew Collectors

Ferd Peters for German Corkscrew Patents and Registrations, Mechanical Corkscrews, Their Evolution, actions, and patents, German Corkscrew Patents, D.R.P. 1877-2000, German Corkscrew Registrations, D.R.G.M. 1891-2000, and History of Pocket Corkscrews and Pocketknives (with Bert Giulian)

Helgir Solheim for Scandinavian Corkscrew Patents

Hajo Türler for Swiss Corkscrew Patents

Fletcher Wallis for British Corkscrew Patents from 1795

Bernard Watney for Corkscrews for Collectors (co-author)

Bernard's award accepted by Mavis Watney

Wolfgang Händel toasts to all recipients:

"To the bottlescrue, whose worth, whose use, all men confess that love the juice. To the bottlescrue!"

Mavis Watney, the Right and Past Rights toast recipients

The first meeting of the International Correspondence of Corkscrew Addicts (ICCA) was organized at the Guinness Brewery in London in 1974 by Bernard Watney. In attendance at the first AGM were Addicts Babbidge, Bingham, Dennis, Ekman, MacDonald, DeSanctis, Phillips, Stark, and Watney. In the minutes of the sixth AGM held at the Guinness Brewery on September 26, 1979, this is reported: "Amidst the cheers of assembled Addicts, Dr. Watney assumed the honorary title of 'Start Right,' in recognition of his status as the founder of our little band. "

Bernard Watney coauthored the first important contribution to the World of Corkscrews in 1981 with Homer Babbidge, that book is the classic Corkscrews for Collectors.. Bernard passed away September 28, 1998. This award is given in memory of Bernard.

The Bernard Watney Award is sponsored and funded by Mavis Watney (Mrs. Bernard Watney)

Purpose of Award: To recognize individuals who have made significant contributions to the World of Corkscrews. The award is not limited to members of corkscrew collecting organizations.

Selection Committee: Honorary Chairperson Mavis Watney, the ICCA Right, the ICCA active member ex-Rights, and the ICCA Chief Correspondent.

Nominations for award: Any person either affiliated or non-affiliated with corkscrew collecting organizations may submit nominations.

Information: The websites of Joe Paradi and Don Bull will include information about the award, links for submission of nominations, and a list of award recipients with a list of their achievements. Corkscrew club newsletters editors will be solicited to publish this information in their newsletters.

Number of Awards: Each recipient will receive one award for their work or works. The published list will include all contributions for each recipient with year noted for publications and the year of the award. In the event the recipient makes further contributions, those contributions will be added to the list.

Here is the complete list of the 2009 authors receiving the award and their books:

Name	Title	Published
Babbidge, Homer*	Corkscrew for Collectors	1981
Berndt, Reinhold	Federzungen	2002
Berntson, Buster*	Scandinavian Corkscrews	1994
Bertazzo, Ottilia Munaretti	L'Art dei Cavatappi
Bidault, Gérard	Les Fabriques Français de Tire-Bouchon 1820 - 1970	2000
Bidault, Gérard	Les Brevets de Tire-Bouchons Français 1847-1968	2005
Bidault, Gérard	Les Tire-Bouchons Français	2005
Bull, Donald	Beer Advertising Openers - A Pictorial Guide	1978
Bull, Donald	A Price Guide to Beer Advertising Openers and Corkscrews	1981
Bull, Donald	The Ultimate Corkscrew Book	1999
Bull, Donald	Bull's Pocket Guide to Corkscrews	1999
Bull, Donald	Beer Advertising: Knives, Letter Openers, etc.	2000
Bull, Donald	Boxes Full of Corkscrews	2001
Bull, Donald	Corkscrew Patents of Japan	2004
Bull, Donald	Cork Ejectors	2004
Bull, Donald	Corkscrew Stories Volume 1 & 2	2004
Bull, Donald	The Perfect Extractor	2005
Bull, Donald*	Just for Openers	1999
Bull, Donald*	Soda Advertising Openers	2000
Bull, Donald*	Anri Woodcarvings	2001
Butler, Robin	The Book on Wine Antiques	1986
Coldicott, Peter	A Guide to Collecting Corkscrews	1994
De Sanctis, Paolo*	I Cavatappi	1988
De Sanctis, Paolo*	The Corkscrew a Thing of Beauty	1990
De Sanctis, Paolo*	Le Collezioni Cavatappi	1993
D'Errico, Nicholas	American Corkscrew Patents 1921-1992	1993
Dippel, Horst	Korkenzieher	1988
Doornkaat, Heinz ten	Deutsche Korkenzieher Patente	1991
Ekman, Per*	Scandinavian Corkscrews	1994
Ekman, Per*	Scandinavian Corkscrew Patents	2004
Ellis, Barbara*	Corkscrews: British Registered Designs	2007
Ellis, Frank*	Corkscrews: British Registered Designs	2007
Fantoni, Maurizio*	I Cavatappi	1988
Fantoni, Maurizio*	The Corkscrew a Thing of Beauty	1990
Fantoni, Maurizio*	Le Collezioni Cavatappi	1993
Giulian, Bertrand	Corkscrews of the Eighteenth Century	1995
Giulian, Bertrand*	History of Pocket Corkscrews and Pocketknives	2006
Handel, Wolfgang	Korkenzieher Patente	1991
Heckmann, Manfred	Korkenzieher	1979
Hoefer, Peter	Österreichische Korkenzieherpatente 1882-1980
Hohn, Heinz	Dreko Drehteile und Korkenzieher	2000
Hutchinson, Francis	(British) Patents for Inventions	1983
Køhler, Anne-Lise	French Corkscrew Patents Found in Denmark	2003
Køhler, Anne-Lise*	Scandinavian Corkscrew Patents	2004
Leigh, James Ron	Corkscrews: Some Hisotry, Some Technology	2007
MacLean, Ron	Canadian Corkscrew Patents	1985
MacLean, Ron*	William Rockwell Clough, 2004	2004
Meadows, Wayne	Compendium of Bar Corkscrews	2001
Nugent, Robert*	William Rockwell Clough	2004
O'Leary, Fred	Corkscrews: 1000 Patented Ways to Open a Bottle	1996
Olive, Guy	Tire Bouchons Français Brevets 1828-1974	1995
Paradi, Joe	French Corkscrew Patents	1988
Paradi, Joe	Hungarian Corkscrew Patents & Registered Designs	2007
Paradi, Monika	Cookbook for Corkscrew Collectors	1991
Perry, Evan	Corkscrews and Bottle Openers	1980
Peters, Ferd	German Corkscrew Patents and Registrations	1997
Peters, Ferd	Mechanical Corkscrews, Their Evolution, actions, and patents	1999
Peters, Ferd	German Corkscrew Patents, D.R.P. 1877-2000	2002
Peters, Ferd	German Corkscrew Registrations, D.R.G.M. 1891-2000	2002
Peters, Ferd*	History of Pocket Corkscrews and Pocketknives	2006
Pumpenmeier, Klaus	Deutscher Gebrauchmusterschutz for Korkenzieher	1997
Rains, Philly*	Anri Woodcarvings	2001
Roger, Robert	A Guide to Gimlets	2003
Roger, Robert	Patented Ice Reducing Tools	2007
Shaub, Paul	Guide to American Corkscrew Patents, V. 1 & 2	1978
Solheim, Helgir*	Scandinavian Corkscrew Patents	2004
Stanley, John*	Soda Advertising Openers	2000
Stanley, John*	Just for Openers	1999
Türler, Hajo	Swiss Corkscrew Patents	2002
Wallis, Fretcher	British Corkscrew Patents from 1795	1997
Watney, Bernard*	Corkscrews for Collectors	1981
*Co-Author

Note some of the awards are posthumous and will be presented to next of kin or friends.

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