Thread: What that heck?

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....

Originally Posted by dimab

Guys, guys, take it easy I certainly can understand the holy rage on somebody's desecrating a shaving brush, and with an ivory handle atop of it. Such atrocity should be criminally punishable
But... this is not such a case as this is not a shaving brush! It's cork-cleaning brush, designed to remove cork crumbles from the bottle opening before pouring the fist glass. You can see a fine example of such a brush here.

Must be a vintage thing cause they don't use those anymore for wine.

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

Must be a vintage thing cause they don't use those anymore for wine.

I suppose modern corks are much sturdier and don't crumble easily.

Originally Posted by dimab

I suppose modern corks are much sturdier and don't crumble easily.

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...