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Calmare Nyckel Key

Both sides of this key read

―

Calmare Nyckel.

‖

The key bit is plainly marked

SVENSKT TENN GAB (assay mark) N8. Svenskt Tenn is the manufacturer,

Stockholm was the place of assay, and N8 is the year date 1938.

Buster Berntson, co-author of

Scandinavian Corkscrews

says

―

I haven

‘

t come across

the patent paper yet but I believe this corkscrew was sold at our biggest

department store in Stockholm called NK (Nordiska Kompaniet). Calmare

Nyckel was one of the two ships that sailed from Sweden to Delaware in 1638

and founded the Swedish colony there in the town of Wilmington. Delaware was

then Swedish for some years until it was sold to USA.

‖

Buster owns another Calmare Nyckel corkscrew which has a 1938 year date. It

has

―

Calmare Nyckel

‖

on one side and

―

1638 - Delaware - 1938

‖

on the opposite.

In addition it has

―

Patent 77282.

‖

Scandinavian Corkscrews

was authored by Buster Berntson and Per Ekman. It was

published in 1994.