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Chasing Cherubs

In 1977 the late Robert Nugent, Hillsboro, New Hampshire, included a

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Cherubs

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corkscrew in the publication of his

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Best Six

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corkscrews. Robert sold

his collection in 1995 to Alf Erickson, Joe Paradi, and Don Bull. When the three

divided up the collection, the Cherubs went to Don

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s collection where it remains

to this date.

A second Cherubs was sold at Sotheby

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s Auction House in London on May 29,

1985. It was a record price at the time fetching £4,620. At that time the dollar was

trading very high and was almost at par with the British pound. Sotheby

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s

promoted their subsequent auction with a postcard picturing the Cherubs with

this description: