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Japan

Haverhill's, a mail-order adult toy store in San Francisco, was a distributor for the Cork

Jet, a Japanese knock-off of the Swiss Corky. The major difference is the loop for the

middle finger grip on the handle.

Haverhill's was incorporated in California in 1966 by

Gerardo Joffe, author of

How You Too Can Make at Least

One Million (but Probably Much More) in the Mail-Order

Business

(1979). The company was dissolved in the early

1970s. Cork Jets sold by Haverhill's were imprinted

"Haverhill's Cork Jet." The instructions for a Cork Jet

without company name tell us "Do not use Cork Jet on

champegne or any oter 'bubbly'." [sic].

In a 1972

Gourmet

magazine

advertisement, Haverhill's

offered their $4.95 (catalog

price) Cork Jet for a mere

$2.00 - check or cash!