Corkscrew

Museum number:
7-9447
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21070009447
Accession number:
Acc.4190
Object count:
1
Description:
Wine bottle cork puller, tourist souvenir made of cast brass, steel, nickel plating, and machining. Corkscrew, tee handle, anthropomorphic, in shape of boy urinating; cast brass figure of boy as handle, "Bruxelles" cast into base; phallic nickel steel Archimedean screw worm.
Donor:
Paul Frank Ziegelmaier
Collection place:
Europe
Verbatim coll. place:
Europe
Collector:
Paul Frank Ziegelmaier
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Corkscrews
Function:
5.5 Stimulants, Narcotics, and Accessories
Department:
Europe and western Russia (except Classical Mediterranean)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Corkscrew, accession number 7-9447, described as Wine bottle cork puller, tourist souvenir made of cast brass, steel, nickel plating, and machining. Corkscrew, tee handle, anthropomorphic, in shape of boy urinating; cast brass figure of boy as handle, "Bruxelles" cast into base; phallic nickel steel Archimedean screw worm.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Corkscrew, accession number 7-9447, described as Wine bottle cork puller, tourist souvenir made of cast brass, steel, nickel plating, and machining. Corkscrew, tee handle, anthropomorphic, in shape of boy urinating; cast brass figure of boy as handle, "Bruxelles" cast into base; phallic nickel steel Archimedean screw worm.

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