Antique Corkscrew Collection from John Hurlston
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A collection of antique corkscrews 19th century and later, comprising three corkscrews with wooden handles, three Horn handled and an antler handled corkscrew, the largest 14.5 cm long. Provenance: The John Hurlston Collection.
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- Horn - Full horns were used for making drinking vessels and powder horns. A number of larger horns or antlers could be combined together to make furniture and decorative items such as chairs and lamps.
As a material, horn was formerly used in all types of objects such as snuff boxes, lanterns, musical instruments, items for personal grooming, cutlery handles, walking sticks. Some items of horn are finely decorated with silver or mounted in silver.
This item has been included into following indexes:
- corkscrews 99
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