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Pete,
Thanks for the search. I've found nothing.
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A tool like the one in the middle except single ended is in an early Parker Brothers catalog. No one I know of has ever claimed that Parker Brothers manufactured it.
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Corkscrew might have been used to remove wads from dud shotshells. Similar to the ones we use to remove the wads from ml shotguns when one forgets that the powder goes in first.
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I actually have a pipe reamer that looks very much like the item on the left, except that it has a threaded rod and wheel across it for size adjustment. I also have a corkscrew that's almost identical to the item on the right. Doesn't mean yours are not shotgunning tools, of course.
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Camp Corkscrew sounds logical in this case. This thing is very necessary and it has to be in every gun case 
Geno.
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Interesting tools! As some others have said, I think the reamer is to clean out pipe(tobacco) bowls, the middle is to remove leading from shotgun bores, from the days before plastic shotcups and harder shot. I'm sticking with my guess on the corkscrew being to pull stuck paper shells out of the chamber, after the brass head has pulled off.
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Murphy,
I owned one of the cleaners you're talking about and the brass shell portion was an actual Parker 12 gauge cartridge, I've seen at least two others that way as well.
Destry
Out there at the crossroads molding the devil's bullets. - Tom Waits
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Geno,
What do you carry in camp that would need a corkscrew?!?!?!
The center piece came with an unusual carring case, a 10ga empty brass shell, I don't think it was a Parker though.
So a number of these corkscrews have been seen. The first one for me. They must have been somewhat common.
Its interesting that the patent doesn't come up for the Lockyer item.
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 Here's my 10 ga. Budd Petmecky attached to a cleaning rod.
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A lot of bottles still came with corks 100 years ago. All sorts of medicinals would need that opener IMO.
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