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Howard L. Ross of Greenwich, Connecticut made a two inch tall pig. He used the
snout for a bottle cap lifter and he used the tail to pull a cork. For this he was
given American Design Patent Number 154,880 on August 16, 1949. He showed
us pigs in black, red, cream, yellow, and green.
Ross
‟
s pig was packaged and sold as
“
Cap
‟
n Corky
”
by his firm Howard L. Ross
Associates in New York City.
