✅ SOLVED 2 wooden cylinders?

[ole miss rebel]

Found these in grandmas estate:

 

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[CanSlawKing]

They look like advertising corkscrews to me.

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[Red-Coat]

Neat. I think if you pull them apart, you’ll find they are corkscrews, with perhaps the additional attachment being an ice-pick. They were given away to customers as promotional items. The last of these three images shows how they were used, with the wooden sleeve inserted through the loop to act as a handle for leverage:



I can’t read the smaller name (Hugo something & Co?), as the ‘successor’ to the business, but James Christopher Pidgeon of Memphis, had a wholesale and retail liquor business (previously under the name J. Lea & Co) in the early 1900s. He abandoned the liquor business in 1909 when he purchased the Memphis Coca-Cola bottler.

 

[ole miss rebel]

Neat. I think if you pull them apart, you’ll find they are corkscrews, with perhaps the additional attachment being an ice-pick. They were given away to customers as promotional items. The last of these three images shows how they were used, with the wooden sleeve inserted through the loop to act as a handle for leverage:

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I can’t read the smaller name (Hugo something & Co?), as the ‘successor’ to the business, but James Christopher Pidgeon of Memphis, had a wholesale and retail liquor business (previously under the name J. Lea & Co) in the early 1900s. He abandoned the liquor business in 1909 when he purchased the Memphis Coca-Cola bottler.

Thanks! We pulled em out:

 

[ArfieBoy]

Cool finds! Congratulations. I have an old metal corkscrew with a metal brass tube, and the ring end is a bottle cap opener.