Vintage 19th Century French Red Cast Iron Wine Bottle Corker Olive Oils & Vinegars A snow white oyster plate

A snow white oyster plate with a deep green seaweed border

Venetian master glass blowing artisan Alfredo Barbini crafted these mid century fruit inside a fruit heavy sky colored bookends at the peak of his career in Murano

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Vintage 19th Century French Red Cast Iron Wine Bottle Corker Olive Oils & Vinegars A snow white oyster plateFinished in its original red paint, this nineteenth century French wine bottle corker brings vivid character to a tool once indispensable to vineyard and cellar life. Crafted from cast iron with wrought iron components, its robust construction was designed to withstand the demands of bottling season, when thousands of corks were pressed into freshly filled bottles by hand. The corker's lever driven mechanism provided the strength and precision