—”I’ve carried a Spartan for many years now.”
I gave my wife a Spartan nearly fifty years ago.
Amazing that she had the only corkscrew in a large government office.
She still has the same one.
I’m on my third in about fifty years, having replaced one just a few months ago; I think it had around 30 years of use. The old one had both the cutting blades sharpened away to about half their original width, and the internal parts were pretty well sprung.
I had a Tinker back in high school, but soon realized that you could turn Philips screws with lots of things but you couldn’t open a bottle of wine with a Philips screwdriver (well, you can, but it’s not pretty).