Drinking - Corkscrews

18th Century Material Culture
Corkscrews
Flat Bow
Folding Handle
Pocket Corkscrews
Corkscrew Hanging on a Nail

by John Singleton Copley c. 1765
Taken from a Door Frame from the Codman House in Lincoln, Massachusetts
(Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
Contentment !
Restrike of the Human Passions Delineated by Timo(thy) Bobbin, Manchester
Published by John Heywood, 1773
(Lewis Walpole Library)
Contentment !
Restrike of the Human Passions Delineated by Timo(thy) Bobbin, Manchester
Published by John Heywood, 1773
(Lewis Walpole Library)
Flat Bow Folding Handle Steel Corkscrew

18th Century
(Private Collection)

18th Century

18th Century
Two English Flat Bow Folding Handle Steel Corkscrews

One Marked SINGLETON 18th Century
(CollectorCorkscrews.com)

c. 1790
English Flat Bow Folding Handle Steel Corkscrew

Excavated from a New York City British Campsite c. 1776 - 1783
(New York Historical Society)
English (?) Flat Bow Folding Handle Steel Corkscrew

Found at the Site of the August 16, 1780 Battle of Camden, South Carolina
English (?) Flat Bow Folding Handle Steel Corkscrew & Ring Top Steel Corkscrews
Found in the Hay House, Williamsburg, Virginia
(Colonial Williamsburg)
Irish Flat Bow Folding Handle Steel Corkscrew

Marked TR, Possibly for Thomas Read of Dublin
French Flat Bow Folding Handle Steel Corkscrew

Marked TR, Possibly for Thomas Read of Dublin
French Flat Bow Folding Handle Steel Corkscrew

18th Century
Irish Flat Bow Folding Handle Silver & Steel Corkscrew Marked Thos Bond Esq
18th Century
18th Century
18th Century
Heart Shaped Flat Bow Folding Handle Steel Corkscrew

18th Century
Folding Handle
Pocket Corkscrews
French Folding Handle Chased - Steel Pocket Corkscrew

18th Century
Folding Handle Silver & Steel Pocket Corkscrew

Mid 18th Century

Mid 18th Century

Marked JSA for Josephus Servatious Anderlee Who Worked in Amsterday from 1782 - 1818

Marked JSA for Josephus Servatious Anderlee Who Worked in Amsterday from 1782 - 1818
Folding - Bow Handle Brass & Steel Corkscrew with Pipe Pricker and Pivoting Double Wax Seal
18th Century
Folding - Bow Handle Brass & Steel Corkscrew with Pipe Pricker and Pivoting Double Wax Seal
18th Century
Fixed Bow Handle

Pocket Corkscrews
French Fixed Heart Shaped Bow Handle Steel Pocket Corkscrew

Mid 18th Century
French Fixed Bow Handle Steel Pocket Corkscrew with Archimedean Worm
Mid 18th Century
French Fixed Bow Handle Steel Pocket Corkscrew

18th Century
French Fixed Bow Handle Silver & Steel Pocket Corkscrew with Base Marked with the Boars Head for Toulouse (1768 - 1775)
18th Century
English Fixed Bow Silver & Steel Pocket Corkscrew

by John Harvey of London c. 1750
(Colonial Williamsburg)
Ring Top
Pocket Corkscrews
Detail of a Ring Top Pocket Corkscrew

from William Hogarths "A Midnight Modern Conversation" 1733
(Yale Center for British Art)
English Ring Top Steel Pocket Corkscrew

18th Century
English (?) Ring Top Steel Pocket Corkscrew

18th Century
English Faceted Ring Top Steel Pocket Corkscrew

18th Century

18th Century
Ring Top Steel Pocket Corkscrew

18th Century
English (?) Ring Top Steel Pocket Corkscrew

18th Century
English Ring Top Steel Pocket Corkscrew

18th Century
English (?) Faceted Ring Top Steel Pocket Corkscrew

18th Century
Faceted Ring Top Steel Pocket Corkscrew

c. 1760

18th Century

Late 18th Century / Early 19th Century

18th Century
English (?) Faceted Ring Top Silver & Steel Pocket Corkscrew
18th Century

c. 1700 - 1730
English Ring Top Gold Gilt with Silver Roses Steel Pocket Corkscrew
18th Century
French Ring Top Steel Pocket Corkscrew

18th Century
Ring Top Silver & Steel Pocket Corkscrew

Ring Top Steel Pocket Corkscrew (Cover Missing)

Excavated from a New York City British Campsite c. 1776 - 1783
(New York Historical Society)

Mid to Late 18th Century


French Ring Top Steel Pocket Corkscrew

18th Century
Ring Top Brass & Steel Pocket Corkscrew with Wax Seal
18th Century
Ring Top Brass & Steel Pocket Corkscrew with Wax Seal
18th Century
Ring Top Steel Pocket Corkscrew with Wax Seal

18th Century
Ring Top Steel Pocket Corkscrew with Freemason Symbol Wax Seal
18th Century
Ring Top Steel Pocket Screwdriver with Wax Seal Signet Marked I C (Broken Worm & Missing the Case)
Late 17th to Early 18th Century
Two Ring Steel Pocket Corkscrew

18th Century
Bar Handle
Pocket Corkscrews
Gold & Agate Pocket Corkscrew

18th Century
Irish Steel & Horn Pocket Corkscrew (Missing Sheath)

Marked FOX for John Fox (d. 1752) c. 1730
French Gold & Mother of Pearl Pocket Corkscrew

c. 1744 - 1750

18th Century
French Gold & Agate Pocket Corkscrew

Mid 18th Century
Silver & Agate Pocket Corkscrew

Mid 18th Century
English Silver & Mother of Pearl Pocket Corkscrew

Marked DF for London Silversmith, Daniel Fields Who Worked in London from 1727 - 1770 Mid 18th Century



Marked DF for London Silversmith, Daniel Fields Who Worked in London from 1727 - 1770 c. 1748
English Silver Pocket Corkscrew

Marked DF for London Silversmith, Daniel Fields Who Worked in London from 1727 - 1770 c. 1748

Marked IB for London Silversmith, John Barrie c. 1760

Marked SP for Samuel Pemberton of Birmingham (1704 - 1784) c. 1770?


Marked SP for Samuel Pemberton of Birmingham (1704 - 1784) 1775



Mid 18th Century

Mid 18th Century

Mid 18th Century
English (?) Silver & Tortoise Shell Pocket Corkscrew

Mid 18th Century

Late 18th Century

c. 1760

Late 18th Century

18th Century
Silver & Green Dyed Ivory Pocket Corkscrew

18th Century
Steel & Bone Pocket Corkscrew

18th Century
Steel & Ivory Pocket Corkscrew

18th Century
Dutch Silver & Mother of Pearl Pocket Corkscrew

c. 1790
English Steel Pocket Corkscrew

c. 1790
Dutch Silver Pocket Corkscrew with Pipe Pricker

Marked HS for Hendrik Smook (Who Worked from 1749 - 1784) Hallmarked for 1756


Marked for Jacob de Roosay, Who Worked From 1722 - 1754 Hallmarked for 1742
Dutch Silver Pocket Corkscrew

by Abraham de Troi c. 1777 - 1790

Marked JBC for Silversmith J. B. Carlier of Middelburg, Holland 18th Century

Marked JBC for Silversmith J. B. Carlier of Middelburg, Holland 18th Century

18th Century

18th Century

Mid 18th Century

18th Century
Dutch Silver Pocket Corkscrew Bearing a Dutch Tax Stamp

c. 1780
Dutch Silver Pocket Corkscrew Bearing a Dutch Tax Stamp

c. 1780

18th Century

18th Century

18th Century

Possibly by William Wobbe (1730 - 1785)

18th Century

by Hendrik Remmers of Amsterdam 18th Century

by Hendrik Remmers of Amsterdam 18th Century

c. 1790
Dutch Silver & Mother of Pearl Pocket Corkscrew Showing the Bust of Hendrik t Hooft
Dated 1788

Late 18th Century

18th Century

18th Century
Dutch Silver Pocket Corkscrew with Pipe Picker


Mid 18th Century

Dutch Silver Pocket Corkscrew Marked with the Shield of Utrecht

Appears to be Hallmarked for 1768
Dutch Silver Pocket Corkscrew Marked with the Shield of Utrecht

Appears to be Hallmarked for 1768

18th Century

Marked KB for Kornelis Brouwer 1775

Marked KB for Kornelis Brouwer 1775

18th Century

c. 1760

18th Century

18th Century

18th Century
Figural
Pocket Corkscrews
Irish Brass Rams Head Pocket Corkscrew Marked B. Eure' in Bickham (Beure Meaning A Good Looking Girl)
Marked Fox on the Knop, Presumably for John Fox of Dublin & Dated 1722
Ivory Head Corkscrew (Missing Sleeve)

18th Century
Brass Devils Head Pocket Corkscrew

c. 1785
Peg & Worm

Corkscrews
English Pick & Worm Corkscrew

c. 1725 - 1800
(Winterthur)
Peg (Bodkin) & Worm Corkscrew

18th Century
Faceted Steel Peg & Worm Corkscrew

18th Century
Steel Peg & Worm Corkscrew

c. 1790
Steel Peg & Worm Corkscrew

c. 1790
Cage
Corkscrews
Quatrefoil & Iron Cage Corkscrew Showing Traces of Gilding

Early 18th Century
Quatrefoil & Iron Cage Corkscrew

Early 18th Century
(Raphael Bedos Antiques)
French Quatrefoil & Iron Cage Corkscrew

Early 18th Century
(Christies)
French Lignum Vitae Cage Corkscrew with Screw - On Helix Protector

c. 1740

c. 1740

c. 1740
Barrel / Roundlet
Pocket Corkscrews
Dutch Silver Beau Brummel Barrel / Roundlet Pocket Corkscrew

Marked AG for Abraham Geurts of Amsterdam Who Worked from 1764 1807 c. Late 18th Century


Silver Beau Brummel Barrel / Roundlet Pocket Corkscrew

Late 18th Century
Brass Beau Brummel Barrel / Roundlet Pocket Corkscrew

c. 1790

Late 18th Century

Late 18th Century

Late 18th Century
Uutch or English Silver Beau Brummel Barrel / Roundlet Pocket Corkscrew

Late 18th Century
Uutch or English Silver Beau Brummel Barrel / Roundlet Pocket Corkscrew

Late 18th Century
Double Folding
Pocket Corkscrews
English Double Folding Steel Pocket Corkscrew with Pipe Tamper Ends
Marked W PARDOE for William Pardoe, a Corkscrew Maker from Staord Street in Wolverhampton c. 1770 - 1792
(From Steel Double Folding Pocket Corkscrews Marked W. PARDOE are Late 18th Century by Brian May & Steven Webb)
Pearson & Rollason Directory of Birmingham (& the Black Country) of 1781 (Including Wolverhampton)
For William Pardoe, a Corkscrew Maker from Staord Street in Wolverhampton 1781
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18th Century
Irish Double Folding Silver & Steel Pocket Corkscrew with Pipe Tamper Ends
by Richard Singleton of Dublin c. 1780
(From Images of Silver Double Folding Pocket Corkscrews by Brian May & Steven Webb)
Miscellaneous
Corkscrews
English Silver Tinder Box Corkscrew

18th Century
English Silver Tinder Box Corkscrew

18th Century
Cork
Pullers
French or Dutch Cork Puller

c. 1680 - 1710
(Fort Ticonderoga)
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18th Century Material Culture

Corkscrew Hanging on a Nail

Flat Bow Folding Handle Steel Corkscrew

Flat Bow Folding Handle Steel Corkscrew

Flat Bow Folding Handle Steel Corkscrew

Two English Flat Bow Folding Handle Steel Corkscrews

Flat Bow Folding Handle Steel Corkscrew

English Flat Bow Folding Handle Steel Corkscrew

English (?) Flat Bow Folding Handle Steel Corkscrew

Irish Flat Bow Folding Handle Steel Corkscrew

French Flat Bow Folding Handle Steel Corkscrew

French Flat Bow Folding Handle Steel Corkscrew

Heart Shaped Flat Bow Folding Handle Steel Corkscrew

French Folding Handle Chased - Steel Pocket Corkscrew

Folding Handle Silver & Steel Pocket Corkscrew

Folding Handle Silver & Steel Pocket Corkscrew

Folding Handle Silver & Steel Pocket Corkscrew

Folding Handle Silver & Steel Pocket Corkscrew

Fixed Bow Handle

French Fixed Heart Shaped Bow Handle Steel Pocket Corkscrew

French Fixed Bow Handle Steel Pocket Corkscrew

English Fixed Bow Silver & Steel Pocket Corkscrew

Detail of a Ring Top Pocket Corkscrew

English Ring Top Steel Pocket Corkscrew

English (?) Ring Top Steel Pocket Corkscrew

English Faceted Ring Top Steel Pocket Corkscrew

English Faceted Ring Top Steel Pocket Corkscrew

Ring Top Steel Pocket Corkscrew

English (?) Ring Top Steel Pocket Corkscrew

English Ring Top Steel Pocket Corkscrew

English (?) Faceted Ring Top Steel Pocket Corkscrew

Faceted Ring Top Steel Pocket Corkscrew

English Faceted Ring Top Steel Pocket Corkscrew

Faceted Ring Top Steel Pocket Corkscrew

Faceted Ring Top Steel Pocket Corkscrew

Ring Top Steel Pocket Corkscrew

French Ring Top Steel Pocket Corkscrew

Ring Top Silver & Steel Pocket Corkscrew

Ring Top Steel Pocket Corkscrew (Cover Missing)

Ring Top Steel Pocket Corkscrew

Ring Top Steel Pocket Corkscrew

Ring Top Steel Pocket Corkscrew

French Ring Top Steel Pocket Corkscrew

Ring Top Steel Pocket Corkscrew with Wax Seal

Two Ring Steel Pocket Corkscrew

Gold & Agate Pocket Corkscrew

Irish Steel & Horn Pocket Corkscrew (Missing Sheath)

French Gold & Mother of Pearl Pocket Corkscrew

French Gold & Mother of Pearl Pocket Corkscrew

French Gold & Agate Pocket Corkscrew

Silver & Agate Pocket Corkscrew

English Silver & Mother of Pearl Pocket Corkscrew

English Silver & Mother of Pearl Pocket Corkscrew

English Silver & Mother of Pearl Pocket Corkscrew

English Silver & Mother of Pearl Pocket Corkscrew

English Silver Pocket Corkscrew

English Silver & Mother of Pearl Pocket Corkscrew

English Silver & Mother of Pearl Pocket Corkscrew

English Silver & Mother of Pearl Pocket Corkscrew

English Silver & Mother of Pearl Pocket Corkscrew

English Silver Pocket Corkscrew

English Silver Pocket Corkscrew

English Silver & Mother of Pearl Pocket Corkscrew

English Silver & Mother of Pearl Pocket Corkscrew