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Table of Contents
Foreword.................................................................................................................................................7
Acknowledgments................................................................................................................................9
Introduction ...........................................................................................................................................6
About Corkscrews...............................................................................................................................10
Advertising Bows................................................................................................................................14
The American Corkscrew Industry .................................................................................................23
The American Corkscrew Company ...............................................................................................25
The Australian Whisky Rebellion...................................................................................................30
Barmaids...............................................................................................................................................33
Hugo Berger .........................................................................................................................................34
Bernhard Bloch's Cork Yanker.........................................................................................................36
Boring Tool Patent..............................................................................................................................37
A Boring Tool.......................................................................................................................................37
Boyer Hammer.....................................................................................................................................38
Boxing....................................................................................................................................................41
Bremen Town Musicians...................................................................................................................45
Bremen Corkscrew Keys....................................................................................................................46
The British Whisky Rebellion..........................................................................................................51
The Buddy Knife.................................................................................................................................52
Butter Picks ..........................................................................................................................................54
The Butterfly........................................................................................................................................55
The Canadian Whisky Rebellion.....................................................................................................56
Cane.......................................................................................................................................................58
Carriage Keys.......................................................................................................................................60
Carter’s Inks
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Cavalry Corkscrew..............................................................................................................................67
Caveman ...............................................................................................................................................69
Anton J. Cermak..................................................................................................................................70
Cheese Knobs ......................................................................................................................................72
Christmas Hooks.................................................................................................................................74
A Clergyman Invents a Corkscrew..................................................................................................75