Introduction No wine lover has ever avoided the problems caused by a poorly functioning corkscrew and we have bad memories attached to these failures.  We all had the experience of watching a waiter/waitress struggling with the corkscrew and have us pray that the wine...

RESTORATION OF ANTIQUE CORKSCREWS AND TOOLS (Adopted from an article by: Frank Kosmerl, 432 Hollybrook Road, Rochester, New York 14623, U.S.A.) As corkscrew or tool collectors we are always interested in ways of cleaning the wooden and metal parts of our antique...

The average collector starts slowly, just buys a couple of corkscrews, then a few more, then as if from nowhere, s/he finds the box half full and the count is 70-80 pieces.  Somewhere along the line, two major issues arise in working with these objects.  These are:...