Corkscrews were not used for only wine, beer and other alcoholic beverages. Corkscrews were used in the past to remove corks from bottle containing medicine, ink, mouthwash, hair products, etc Many of the companies that sold their products in corked bottles, put their advertising on the corkscrew included with the bottle. Many did not so one is more likely to find a miniature corkscrew without advertising than with Here are miniature corkscrews which have been cataloged to date. |
Advertising on Corkscrew | Corkscrew Type | Bottle Advertising |
Adamsons Cough Balsam | Yellow Flat Metal | |
B & W Company, Manufacturing Chemist | Wire | |
Bailey H & C Pure Rye | Flat Metal Tag on wire | |
Bailey's H & C | Wire | |
Baileys Pure Rye | Flat Metal Bright Yellow | |
Baileys Pure Rye | Gold Flat Metal | |
Bell-Ans | Wire | Bell-Ans for Indigestion, Orangeburg, New York |
Benetol | Wire | |
Big G | Flat Metal | The Evans Chemical Co., Big G., Cincinnati, O. |
Boschees German Syrup | Flat Metal | |
Bovinine | Gray Flat Metal | |
Bovinine | Large Wire | |
Brown's Iron Bitters / The Best Bitters | Green Flat Metal | |
Bull's Cough Syrup | Wire | Dr. J. W. Bulls Cough Syrup, Baltimore |
Bull's Cough Syrup | Yellow Flat Metal | Bull's Cough Syrup, Baltimore |
Campho-Phenique | Wire | Phenique Chemical Co., St. Louis, Mo. |
Carter's Inks | Red Flat Metal (2 sizes) | Carter's Raven Black Ink |
Caustic Balsam | Wire | Gombault's Caustic Balsam, Cleveland, O. |
Clar-O-Type | Wire | |
Clough's Patent, July 22, 1884 | Oversize Flat Metal | |
Cloughs Medicine | Flat Clock | |
Clover (Possibly Glover) | Wire | |
Cummings Sarsaparilla | Yellow Flat Metal | |
Devoe & Co., F. W., N.Y. | Wire | |
Duratol Developer | Yellow Flat Metal | |
Emulson de Scott | Green Flat Metal | |
Eugene Ltd | Wire | |
Ferroleum | Flat Metal | |
Gargling Oil | Wire | |
Glover | Wire | Glover's Imperial Mange Medicine |
Glover | Wire | Glover's Imperial Blood Purifier for Animals |
Goff's | Wire | Mineral Water, St. Louis |
Goff's | Wire | Original No-Dope Cough Syrup, Est. 1872, Camden, N.J. |
Goff's | Wire | Goff's Bitters, LeRoy, N.Y. |
Goldman's Gray Hair Restorer, Mary T. | Blue Flat Metal | |
Goldmans Grey Hair Restorer, Mary T., St. Paul, Minn. | Wire | Mary T. Goldman's Hair Restorer, St. Paul, Minn. |
Gottschall Products | Wire | |
Great A & P Tea Co's Extracts | Flat Metal Red tag on wire | |
Green's August Flower | Yellow Flat Metal | Remedy for Catarrh, Iowa |
Guadalupana Med. Co. | Wire | Nashville, Tenn. |
Gunst & Co., Richmond, Va | Brown Flat Metal | |
Hall's Nicotine | Wire | |
Hance Bros. & White, Philadelphia, Pharm'cl Chemist | Beige Hanging Insert | |
Heller & Co., B., Chicago, U.S.A. | Yellow Flat Metal | |
Herskovits | Yellow Flat Metal | |
Hoppe's No. 9 | Wire | A Powder Solvent for Pistols, Trade Mark Hoppe's No. 9Sole Manufacturer: Frank A. Hoppe, Inc., Philadelphia, Pa. |
Horsfords Acid Phosphate | Wire | |
Humphrey & Martins Finest Whiskies, Phil. Pa. | Yellow Hand Tab on Wire | |
Huxley | Wire | |
Jacobs, Atlanta | Wire | |
Jefferson Club | Gold Flat Metal | |
Jiffy | Wire | |
Jomavar-Girardo | Wire | |
Judson's Gold Paint | Flat Metal | |
Kemp's Balsam | Wire | Kemp's Balsam for the Throat, Le Roy, N.Y. |
Kendall's | Wire | |
Kennedy, Donald | Wire | |
Kepler Solution Cod Liver in Malt and Kepler Malt Extract. Inside Band: Voice Tabloids of Cocaine, Potash and Borax | Flat Metal | |
Kikara | Wire | |
Koch's Pepton Bouillon, Dr. | Orange Flat Metal | |
Kohn, David, Phila. Pa. | Wire | |
Lactopeptine for Dyspepsia / For Indigestion | Red Flat Metal | |
Lambert's Syrup, Dr. J. O. | Wire | |
Listerine | Wire (3 sizes) | |
Listerine | Yellow Flat Metal (red letters) | |
Listerine, Lambert Pharmacal Company | Yellow Flat Metal (2 sizes) | |
Lloyd Brothers | Wire | |
Lung Tonic Cures Coughs | Green Flat Metal | |
Maconnell, James M., New York | Yellow Flat Metal | |
Magee's Emulsion, C. K. | Flat Metal | |
McLean Med. Co., Dr. J. H. | Wire | St. Louis, Mo. |
Merrel, Jacob L. | Yellow Flat Metal | |
Minards Linament | Wire | |
Mizzy | Wire | |
Mount Vernon Pure Rye | Yellow Flat Metal | |
Mufti | Wire | Mufti Dry Cleaning, Miami Chemical, Cincinnati, Ohio |
NONSPI | Wire | |
Nujol | Wire | Nujol (Mineral Oil from Standard Oil of N.J.) |
Nye, William F. | Wire | Sportman's Oil, NY Oil, New Bedford, Mass |
Nye, Inc., William F. | Wire | |
Packer's Charm | Wire | |
Panopepton | Yellow Flat Metal | |
Paragon | Wire | |
Paris Med. Co. | Wire | |
Pat. July 22, 88 | Flat Metal | |
Pearl Wedding Rye | Red Hanging Insert | |
Plain | Wire | Kerr Dental Lubricant, Detroit, Mich. |
Plain | Wire | Remington Typewrite Oil |
Pompeian | Wire | |
Prickley Ash Bitters | Wire | |
Rawleigh Man, Compiments of | Flat Metal | Rawleigh's Cough Syrup, Freeport, Ill. |
Red Star * Cough Cure | Gold Flat Metal | |
Remington | Wire | |
Remington Oil | Wire | |
S.S.S. | Wire | |
S.S.S. for the Blood | Wire | |
St. Jacobs Oil | Red Flat Metal | |
St. Jacobs Oil Made in U.S.A. Clough's Corkscrew Pat. July 22-84 | Yellow Flat Metal | |
Sanmetto for Kidneys and Bladder | Green Flat Metal | |
Say Aster Vanilla | Flat Metal | |
Scotts Emulsion | Green Flat Metal (2 sizes) | Cod Liver Oil |
Scotts Emulsion | Wire | |
Seigel's Syrup | Wire | |
Severa | Wire | |
Ship-A-Hoy | Wire | |
Sirop Matheiu's Syrup | Wire | Mathieu's Syrup for Coughs, Colds, Etc |
Sirop Mathieu's | 1884 Patent | |
Sirop Mathieu's Syrup | 1884 Patent | |
Solyol | Wire | Surgical Antiseptic Disinfectant, Toronto, Ontario |
SSW | ||
Straus, Gunst & Co. Inc. Baltimore, Md. | Gold Flat Metal | |
Taft's Asthmalene, Dr. | Wire | |
Tippy Canoe | Wire | |
Vogeler's Curative Compound | Yellow Flat Metal | |
Wakelee's Camelline | Tan Flat Metal | |
Wakelee's Camelline | White Flat Metal | |
Wampole's | Wire | Henry K. Wampole &; Company |
Wampole's | Wire | H. K. Wampole Heroin Tablets |
Warner's Log Cabin Remedies | Yellow Flat Metal | |
Warner's Safe Cure | Red Flat Metal | |
Warner's Safe Cure, Warner's Safe Remedies Co., Rochester, N.Y. / Tippecanoe Red | Yellow Flat Metal | |
Weiss & Rausche | Wire | |
Youth-O-Lede Hair Coloring | Flat Metal | |
Z.M.O. for Pain | Green Flat Metal |