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Metal
In
Mechanical Corkscrews: Their evolution, actions, and patents
, Chapter VII
(
“
Threaded Shaft Corkscrews
”
), Ferd Peters heads up the club type corkscrews
with
“
A piston rod and a second handle fixed to the withdrawing shaft.
”
Ferd
presents what is probably the first patent for this type of corkscrew with
“
On
May 26, 1875, Jean Picard obtained French patent No. 323,030 for a corkscrew
with a plain inner penetrating shaft (piston rod) fixed to a steel handle and with
a large disc fixed to the upper end of the right-hand threaded shaft.
”
He surmises
the corkscrew was
“
perhaps the precursor of a number of wooden Italian and
French corkscrews manufactured at the end of the nineteenth and first half of the
twentieth century.
”
Brass example with
steel handle and
bladed worm.
Marked PICARD Bte
S.G.D.G.
From the collection of
Guy Olive
Similar to example at
left. Marked on the
steel handle PICARD A
MARCIGNY and on
top of the brass turning
wheel BREVETE and
SGDG.
From the collection of
Bert Giulian
Bronze variation with
simpler barrel and center
point bladed worm.
Marked BREVETE
S.G.D.G. PICARD A
MARCIGNY
From SCReWbase
