Info letter nr 17
30 st september
2005
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Hello, The « Collection privée Tire-bouchons » monthly newsletter gives information related
to the website: main updates,
new links towards excellent corkscrew dedicated websites and on new
items added to the collection. You’ll
find a complete index of the newsletters published since Nr 1 by clicking
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Last
minute… French TV France 3 was interested in our passion and
my collection through Magali Nguyen. It is a
journalist for a new emission on Tel. 06 87 10 50 75 – Mail magalinguyen@yahoo.fr |
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Read
the last newsletter Summary Reader’s corner A selection of the best auctions of the month New links The collection is growing up The unusual object of the month Associations |
14 021 visits on the
website as end of September 2005, Thanks for your fidelity!! 2nd anniversary of “Collection privée Tire-bouchons” Web site: it was inaugurated on September 16,
2003. The objective was double: to
bring closer the French-speaking pomelkophiles and
to give desire to the Net surfers of the whole world for discovering this
passion Yes, I collect wine and corkscrews. Just how this
happened, I can't say for sure. But it has turned into an obsession that I
fear has no cure. Please help me. Send boxes of corkscrews and I will be
eternally grateful. Without any further delay, a sampling of some corksrews in my collection for your enjoyment (see the list below). |
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A selection
of the best auctions of the month found
on Ebay… Very nice auctions took place this month with namely 2 corkscrews
KIDEBOUCHE and a prongs and puller of Eugene Serre … |
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Copy Wulfruna system patented by James Heeley & Sons. This
corkscrew is not marked. The pin was replaced by a small dish which comes to
stop the screw with the manner of the corkscrews with tilting ring. Presented
in the catalogue of Heeley under the nr 4464.
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Very
beautiful pocket corkscrew certainly of Dutch invoice. The silver case
protects a wire worm. The very worked stem is surmounted by a handle with a curious
form.
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Corkscrew
marked Kidebouche, of unknown invoice, it is not
without recalling celebrates it Perfect with a difference on the level of the
bronze handle and the 2 stops on the level of the mobile bell. (Seen Extractor nr 41).
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Corkscrew
marked Kidebouche, of unknown invoice, like Ci against, it is not without recalling celebrates it
Perfect with this time a handle in the shape of horns. (Seen Extractor nr 41).
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This French
prongs is patented
by Eugene Serre under the nr 772.202 on April 23,
1934. It takes again the principle of the patent of Theodore Destroyes with in more one cut glass.
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This French
prong is patented by Theodore Destroyes under nr 678.196
on July 9, 1929. One of the only corkscrews of pocket thermal switches with
this one against
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French corkscrew
with blade entirely metal hook of Eugene Adrien Mestre patented under the nr 99,986 on July 13, 1874.
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English
corkscrew of Richard W Bradnock patented under the
nr 3,221 on June 29, 1883. It is marked MAGIC TWIST.
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New links…
Every month I’m trying to discover new websites related to corkscrews:
Auction, sale, collectors’ websites, or even single html pages.
1.
Je collectionne.com, A new site to pass from the advertisements between
collectors...
2.
Corkscrew page, Yes, I collect
the wine and of the corkscrews. How
this occurred, I really do not know. But
on the other hand what is sure, it is that that turns to obsession...
3.
Le tire-bouchon nouveau
est arrivé, Corkscrew, object usual and quasi-universal, Xavier Masson knew to make
an object of At. In the hands of this
creative with the mounting of innovations, the banal one is transformed into
art while remaining attached to its functionality first. Its creations invite us to pose a new glance
on the ustensil fetish of the amateurs of elixirs
of the whole world.
4.
Le Musée
de la Vigne et du Tire-Bouchon, A formidable panoply of tools and old corkscrews (of the XIXe century at our days) collected by
Of course you can retrieve all these addresses in the
rubric LIENS of the website “Collection privée
Tire-bouchons”. Have a nice surf !
The
collection is growing up …
The number of items in the collection as of today is 212,
four items have been added to the collection…
Simple corkscrews
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Mechanical corkscrews
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No new
item |
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Lever corkscrews
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Figural corkscrews
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No new
item |
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Multifunction corkscrews
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Pocket corkscrews
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No new
item |
No new
item |
More than 60 countries came to
connect itself on the site with a majority of French-visitors. Like last year,
the greatest number of visits comes from
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Identification…
New information on one of the 2
corkscrews
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Aidez nous à rechercher leur
identification… |
L’objet insolite du mois… |
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I didn’t receive information
on this corkscrew, and anything in the works which I have. it looks like the
« Ménagère » made by Perille, except that
the handle and the fly-nut have sharp sides.!
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Every month I
will try to dig up an unusual object always in relationship with corkscrews. This month, I found this stopper surmounted by a corkscrew with levers,
rather original! |
Associations…
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association 
Don’t forget to sign the adhesion bulletin.
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Thanks for your attention… see you soon on Collection privée tire-bouchons.