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Freyseng Cork Company

A 1902 Canadian Directory lists the Freyseng Cork Company, Ltd. with addresses in

Montreal (655-661 St. Paul Street) and Toronto (Queen and Sumach). The listing shows

the company as a manufacturer of bungs, spiles,

cork pullers

, cork, and lemon

squeezers. The company advertising appears on two plates on the horse legs corkscrew

shown below. The corkscrews were produced by Steinfeld and Reimer in Germany.

Peter Freyseng emigrated from Germany (Mannheim), his place of birth (1842), to New

York in 1860. There he took a job with the firm of Gooderwill and Bucknell, wholesale

importers of cork wood. Peter moved to Ontario around 1871 and by 1881, he and his

brother John were manufacturing cork in Toronto. By 1903 officers of the firm were

Peter Freyseng, President; Edward J. Freyseng, Vice President, and John P. Freyseng,