Bottle opener from the travel wardrobe trunk used by Cab Calloway

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

An A.W. Company Limited bottle opener from the travel wardrobe trunk used by Cab Calloway. The cast iron, crown seal bottle opener is constructed from a single piece of molded metal. The inverted triangular top of the bottle opener has a flattened tab at the bottom, designed to remove to bottle caps, and the bar at the top has been flatted and features embossed text that reads [RD70] and [2661]. The text is divided by a pyramidal shape designed to give the opener leverage when lifting a bottle cap. The handle is solid, narrow, with slightly convex sides that terminate in wider area with a centered keyring hole at the bottom. Embossed text across the handle reads [A.W. CO. LTD.]. The back of the handle is identical to the front but has the text [DIRECT SUPPLY] embossed across the length of the handle.

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