Didn't realize my little response would be taken to task (since I mentioned the fact that I don't own any of bottles in this age range). The prospect of pushing a cork back into the bottle seamed much easier than picking out the pieces of a broken cork being pushed into the bottle after taking out as much of the cork as possible was mentioned in the message I originally replied to.
Until I have more experience in this area I will defer to the veterans. I enjoy reading this group (been doing it for years) and want to start contributing to the conversations here more often. Hope to not step on too many toes :)
TIA
George Cox