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In a Corky press release entitled "Open the bottle - with a few thimbles of pure air!",

Girtag said "A unique and astonishingly simple way of opening bottles has been made

possible by a Swiss invention now granted patents in all the world. The opener functions

with air - with just pure common air. Our argument: Air is free for everybody and

everywhere."

In the United States the list of stores and mail order firms selling the Corky in the early

years was long: Macy's ($4.99), Kaufmann's ($5), Bullock's Santa Ana ($6), Myers

Brothers ($5), The Fair - Chicago ($4.98), Gifts of Fashion ($5.00), and Hoffritz ($4.95

in a 1967 advertisement).

In a 1984

Chicago Tribune

Christmas

advertisement, Marshall Field & Company

offered the Corky for $18.00. Today the

Corky can be found on the Internet in the

$25 price range. Most Corky's have a black

body but handles can be found in black,

chrome, or both. Needle covers can be

found black, chrome, and white.

The Corky was also produced with a

red body and black handles