Antique Miniature Folding Bow w/ Corkscrew hot c.1800-1850.

A small folding bow corkscrew with button hook, 2" x 1.50", all steel, finely made bow is ground on both sides, perfect tapered grooved helix corkscrew and button hook, implements swing out and snap firmly in place, these small corkscrews were used to pull out corks of medicine, ink or perfume bottles and were part of necessaires and travel cases, very nice English or French example from the first half of hot the 19th century.