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Bury the Corkscrew

Ron Maclean reports on his

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Bury the Corkscrew

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find:

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Pictured below are

enamel steel water jugs with ice catching spouts advertising Teachers Highland

Cream Scotch Whisky. Both show a capped or flanged cork in use that eliminates

the need of a corkscrew. I think this was first introduced in the 1920s.

In 1913, William Manera Bergius, a nephew of Adam Teacher, devised and

patented the now familiar replaceable cork (i.e. a cork with a wooden cap, which

did not require a corkscrew). Highland Cream was described as

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the self-opening

bottle

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, and it was advertised with the slogan

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Bury the Corkscrew

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.

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