Vintage view: Antique and vintage corkscrews

Kya deLongchamp explores the world of antique and vintage corkscrews.

An excellent Georgian silver travelling corkscrew with mother of pearl barrel-shaped handle. This corkscrew features silver hoops around the mother-of-pearl handle. The steel worm is held by a silver collar and can be threaded in to the silver sheath when not in use. Recently sold by antiquesilverspoons.co.uk.

Smalls are not only an economical area of collecting, but they bridge other areas of interest in material, period and theme.