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Odds and Ends

Above right is a bottle guard made of leather mounted on a cast iron base. The guard

slides over the top of a bottle. One holds it in place and the bottle down by stepping on

the two pedals on the side. This gives an assist in pulling the cork and also protects the

user in case of glass breakage. In a c.1870 Farrow & Jackson a similar

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Bottle Guard

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is

pictured.

On the right is a later patent for an

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Improvement in Bottle Holders for use when

Extracting Corks

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. British Patent No. 29,141 was issued to Nathanael Percy Milne of

Gloucestershire on March 28, 1907.

A combination knife / corkscrew

advertising

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Always Pure Old Elk

Whiskey

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with a go-with matchbook

depicting a bottle of Old Elk Whiskey.