The £1000 corkscrew
Good corkscrews continue to attract solid sums. Alongside the likes of Thomas Lund and Edwin Cotterill, Robert Jones is one of the big names of the English patent market, if only because his so-called ‘Robert Jones II’ is among the rarest and most valuable of all corkscrews.
His first patented corkscrew, registered two years previously in 1840 is seen more frequently but is…