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Rocketwaveuk
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Bottle Tin And Lid Opener
Trying to find more information has patent No 222093 but no makers name, thanks .
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Welcome to CW. I live bottle openers...this must be from 60s I imagine. Your pictures are a little blurry...what is the name on the back side?
Rocketwaveuk, Cool. :-)
That patent is a bit of a puzzler. I tried looking it up in the USPTO, but whether I looked for it as a utility or design patent, it didn't seem applicable:
https://patents.google.com/patent/US276299/en
https://patents.google.com/patent/USD222093S/en
I tried espacenet dot com, but didn't see anything that leaped out at me:
https://worldwide.espacenet.com/searchResults?ST=singleline&locale=en_EP&submitted=true&DB=&query=222093
That name on the other side looks something like "?OKRION" (I can't quite make out the first character so I subsituted a question mark here).
However, the character I'm loosely translating as an "R" only bears a passing resemblance to a lower case Roman "r." It might actually be an upper case Cyrillic Ge/Ghe character:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrillic_script
We could try transcribing and translating it, but we'd need a clearer picture:
https://www.lexilogos.com/keyboard/index.htm
Could you please take a clearer one and add it to your post?
Hi dav2no1, keramikos, am so sorry to disappoint you but the actual word you are looking at says FOREIGN as it must have been an imported item to the UK, but thank you both for trying very hard. Yes i expect it to have been made around the 1960`s
Rocketwaveuk, "FOREIGN" D'oh! };-)
FYI, a search of Google Images using a copy of one of your pictures turned up some openers, but none that looked yours. :-(
Thanks, it has me stumped as well , 3 hours trying different search words but i did not see this one .
I saw a few that looked similar that said Japan on them. And I was thinking it says foreign, but that seemed kind of a odd marking..
I found an explanation for the use of foreign..the McKinley tariff act..
https://www.porcelainmarksandmore.com/resources/history-notes.php
Here's an example with the Japan mark. Has original case and a screwdriver
https://www.ebay.com/itm/331609590283
Yes and i found one "Heineken" was on the main part. other than that it was the same. but still no idea of where and who made. but thanks for your help.
https://www.retonthenet.co.uk/vintage-heineken-cap-lifter-can-piercer-bottle-opener-1950s-1960s-screwdriver-bar-tool-advertising-6902-p.asp
Woo hoo! However, the mystery of the maker continues, huh?
dav2no1, That explanation of the "Foreign" mark was interesting. :-)