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Great Britain, oval copper alloy Admiral Vernon medal, 1739, Vernon and ship / Porto Bello, made int

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Great Britain, oval copper alloy Admiral Vernon medal, 1739, Vernon and ship / Porto Bello, made int
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Great Britain, oval copper alloy Admiral Vernon medal, 1739, Vernon and ship / Porto Bello, made into a corkscrew, rare, ex-Adams. AC-PBvi25OO. 15.27 grams; 65 mm long. What better way to open your bottle of wine or grog than with an Admiral Vernon corkscrew! The medal itself is VF, with bulge at top perhaps indicating conversion from something else like a key or pendant (see lot 1547, also note the British Museum example plated in AC that "certainly was not used as a corkscrew"), the iron screw itself inserted into the bottom via parts in the same copper alloy as the medal (possibly cast in one piece), rated R in AC. XRF: 55.82% copper, 40.81% zinc, 2.67% lead. Pedigreed to the John Adams Collection (with his handwritten tag).