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A Brief History about the Corkscrews & Bottle Openers

The corkscrew has not been for millennia, while the Wine has been around has been. In early days, in wooden barrels or in earthenware vessels wine was stored. It was just a few hundred years ago in corked bottles wine began to be stored. However, in a bottle with a cork, a variety of other substances were stored even before that, and therefore to pull the cork out required an implement. Now a day the glass cap cork bottle stopper is used. So, who was its inventor and where did the first corkscrew come from? Well, to that we don't really have a clear answer, but here is what a corkscrew historian named Ron McLean has to say as he knew with the Virtual Corkscrew Museum there was such a thing! "It is unknown who made and when was the first corkscrew made. From gun worms, the first corkscrews were derived. It was a tool with a double or single spiral end fitting, which was used to extract an unspent charge from the barrel or clean musket barrels. Blacksmiths ma