MADE OE CHAMPAGNE CORKS.
At a London club there is the most unique pair of curtains in existence. This portiere is formed of hundreds of champagne corks, taken from every known brand of champagne, each of which bears the tin top which adorned it when the cork was in its parent bottle. The corks are made into strings, there' being sixty of them to each string. Between every cork there are three big Chinese beads of turquoise blue. The corks are tied to a white enamelled pole with fancy ends, and big sashes of blue ribbon adorn the brass knobs. The total effect is distinctly pretty. What makes this unique portiere doubly valuable is the fact that each cork bears the autograph of a famous actor or actress of the present day.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXI, Issue XXVII, 31 December 1898, Page 864
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132MADE OE CHAMPAGNE CORKS. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXI, Issue XXVII, 31 December 1898, Page 864
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