A rare English straight pull brass and steel corkscrew marked “THE UNION”. It has a British registered design lozenge, for a British Registered Design number 301393 granted on the 23rd of June 1876 to Joseph Page, St George’s Works, Mott Street, Birmingham. Perfect square wire helical worm. This example illustrated on page 47 of “Corkscrews: British Registered Designs” by Frank Ellis and Barbara Ellis. (Provenance: Frank Ellis Collection 2024.)