Guilty Pleasure: Seeking BIRD (wine) CORKS

Of course I will.

 

MY PEOPLE.

Mi Abuela.

 

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I have a couple of bottles of Jersey Devil wine.....
It's supposed to fly you know.
Not sure what is on the cork and I should drink it soon anyway...
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It looks post-Jurassic. It has wings. Warm-blooded... or it couldn't chase people at night. I declare it to be a bird.

I want the cork, if it says something.

PLEEEEEEEEEEEASE?????????????

 

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmaybe...................

 

*SQUINTING AT YOU*

 

HA HA!!!! OHHHHHH, , you're SO welcome!! (laughing here!)

 

TOLD ya I'd be using it a lot. I'm gonna thank you every time. I feel a white flag retains dignity... in contrast to yelling UNCLE.

 

Oh man! Several months ago I pitched a box of corks my mom kept. I would have gone through them if I'd known.

 

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEKKKKK!!!!!!!!!

Can you go to the dump? Kidding!

Can you?

KIDDING. Thanks anyway!!!!

 

Breathe Gila....

 

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I just bought a huge lot of wine corks (on eBay) because I spied three bird corks... one that has a duck and the name "Lucky Duck", and one unlabeled winking owl, and one duplicate of a Rex Goliath that I already have.

There are tons of wine cork lots on eBay... most are 25-100 in a lot... selling for a range of 1 to 15 bucks, usually. My order is less than 8 bucks, with shipping.

I'll give the rest of the corks, the non-bird ones, to a sister-in-law who does craft projects with such stuff. UNLESS... does anybody want close to a hundred used wine corks???????????????????? I'll start a thread in GIVEAWAYS.

 

I am feeling extremely worldly today, as I have added two wonderfully exotic corks to my collection. And it's all thanks to Makanudo, our regular poster, Serbian Ambassador, and all-around fun guy. Here they are below.
Thank you, Mak, sincerely.
And in view of our recent "crash" here, I'd like to repeat something I said in a message to Mak. When I found this site, I fully expected to learn about art and antiques, and I have. What I didn't expect was the opportunity to learn in such a warm and personal way, and to make acquaintances around the world... learned, experienced, intelligent, generous, wonderful people.
Y'all are all great.
xo
Gila

 

Nice all that!

 

Hi Gila,
Soon you will be able to write about bird corks! Now I keep looking through peoples collections of wine corks.
greg

 

I just went through another bag at the nearby thrift!

 

Wow!

Now I have BirdWineCork Peeps!!!!!!!! World-wide!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I will be writing a monograph...

Wuthering Bird Corks?
Adventures in BirdCorkLand?
The Call of the BirdCork?
Brave New BirdCork?
BirdCork in the Rye?
The BirdCork Games?
Gone With the BirdCorks?

 

Birdcork of Green Gables?

 

Hello, hello birdcork?