Antique,1880s , Industrial Revolution Apothecary Cast Iron tool, Cork Press, with wooden base.

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Antique,1880s , Industrial Revolution Apothecary Cast Iron tool, Cork Press, with wooden base.

 

Size 28 x 16 x 11 cm

 

This Victorian period Cork Press is made of Cast Iron and has a beautiful scroll design which was very popular in this era.

These were used by Pharmacists and Druggists to compress corks for medical bottles, it has two different diameters, 3/8, 1/2” press points.

 

Circa;1880

Marked; none

Condition is very good for its age, nice dark patina.

 

History:

The bottle cap wasn’t invented until the 1892 by the Crown Cork Co. of Baltimore, but not highly used until into the 1900s. Before the cap was introduced most all bottles had corks including Medicines, Perfumes & Alcohol.

 

Industrial growth transformed world society. It produced a new class of wealthy industrialists and a prosperous middle class.

 

People who were born in the 1840s and 1890s would experience enormous changes in their lifetimes. Some of these changes resulted from a sweeping technological revolution. Their major source of light, for example, would change from candles, to kerosene lamps, and then to electric light bulbs. They would see their transportation evolve from walking and horse power to steam-powered locomotives, to electric trolley cars, to gasoline-powered automobiles, tools were made of cast iron so that they last for many years.