Ummmm......nope.
That is just more kinds of wrong thank I can count
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Ummmm......nope.
That is just more kinds of wrong thank I can count
You should have bought it if it had a reasonable price:)
That corkscrew looks nice and i'm sure it could have been fixed.
The brush on the oterhand either filled the hole with some fancy acrilic or make 2 shorter handles from it...that ivory isnt something you come across everyday....
I imagine the guy who did this had a fine taste for shaving gear and wine....He drank a lot of wine hence the broken handle that needed urgent fixing....had little imagination....and the IQ of a neanderthall...and no apreciation for art.
...or we could be witnesing the invention of the first Swiss Army cork-screw brush...shurely a prototype...
That poor brush....
At the time wine was often not filtered/screened when going from fermentation to aging or from aging to bottling. Stored flat or cork down the bottom of the cork would have a nice crust of sediment (grape skin fragments, yeast sediment etc.)
For the cork to be re-used as a stopper the sediment (crud) would need to be removed.
These would be in the realm of high end wedding gifts or tools of a wine steward (Sommelier) - no doubt stored with his Saber...
But that is one prime chunk of Ivory...