(This article was written for the November 2010 issue of The Quarterly Worme , the newsletter for the Canadian Corkscrew Collectors Club, of which I am a member. Hope you enjoy it.) I never actually thought about collecting corkscrews. It just happened! Susan and I were in London back in the mid-80s. It was a business trip and she came along so we could add some vacation time to the trip. While wandering the backstreets near Shepherd’s Market one day, we wandered into an antique shop. There it was … this beautiful object with a turned ivory handle and an unusual brush on one side. Since we loved wine, the fact that it was a corkscrew also made it practical. I bought it, thinking how great it would be to open a bottle of old Port with this magnificent corkscrew. Three ivory and bone handled corkscrews from the late 1800s or so. (L to R) • Bone handled corkscrew with a diamond cut shaft, an original brush and a...
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