DRINKING

A late Georgian steel pocket corkscrew, the T-bar fitting within the "worm" for the pocket, 102mm, (closed)

A Victorian folding steel pocket corkscrew, 80mm high, (closed)

A Victorian pocket corkscrew, the nickel handle, impressed "DREW & SONS / PICADILLY CIRCUS", unscrewing to accommodate the folding steel worm, 83mm , (closed)

A Victorian gentleman's silver-plated moustache guard for attachment to a cup or glass, the grips stamped with the maker's cypher "AVH" and Design Registration lozenge mark for the date of registration, 12th March, 1875, 65mm 

A silver-gilt and glass pocket spirit flask with facet-cut shoulders, silver screw-on cover and engine-turned fitted cup engraved with the crest of Colonel Hilliard, hallmarked London, 1910, 123mm high

A miniature silver-plated brass wine taster, the handle in the form of fruiting vine, the bowl 56mm diameter, maker's mark "ML under a star"

AWilliam IV Irish silver spirit flask in the form of a shell-decorated gunpowder flask, hallmarked Dublin, 1831, maker Henry Flavell, engraved "JOHN FLEMING / CARLISLE", 155mm high

A  brass mounted champagne-bottle rubber stopper, the tap with alternative spigots maked "P" and "N", the central position marked "OFF", 95mm long

A nickel-mounted champagne-bottle stopper, 105mm long

An 18th-century horn dram cup of wineglass form, 67mm high

A Victorian nickel Burns's Patent Bottle Lock, marked "BY HER MAJESTY'S ROYAL LETTERS PATENT, with key, 55mm high