A 19th century crocodile cork press

A 19th century crocodile Cork Press of English origin. Made of cast iron finished in green enamel with holes in feet for screwing down to bench. During the 18th and 19th c. there was no chemist that had not a cast-iron corkpress in his shop. Mostly shaped in a acanthus-leaf or animalform they stood screwed onto the wooden counter. There use was to ‘press’ the cork and make it fit, airtight, into the bottle-neck. Our corkpress is shaped like a crocodile the symbol that was used, during the previous centuries, as a symbol to the pharmacy.Length 29 cm