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An Incredible Find

Kenn Cameron has proven time and time again that he is a premiere hunter of

corkscrews and corkscrew information. And now the photo above shows some

of his wood carved corkscrew figures admiring his

latest fabulous find amongst a number of his tusk

handle corkscrews.

Kenn found the giant corkscrew on a table at a

Brimfield, Massachusetts show where the dealer said

he had purchased it at a Pennsylvania estate sale.

Kenn lugged his 10 pound, 26

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long corkscrew to his

car thinking about how the elephant from which it

came had to carry two of those tusks around every

day. When he got home, he immediately called his

friend Ron MacLean to report his find. Ron

remembered a 1909 photo of corkscrew inventor

Edwin Walker with such a large corkscrew hanging

around his neck. Ron contacted a tool collector friend

and within hours he had a copy of a the photo from

Patented & Transitional

Metallic Plans in America, Vol. II

by Roger Smith, Athol, Massachusetts in his

hands.

Ron sent the photo to Kenn and both agreed that it had to be the same corkscrew.

The size relationship is correct. The markings on the tusk appear to be the same

and the design at center is correct. It is without a doubt one of the most

significant historical corkscrew finds to date.