My can openers of this kind:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_ope..._wheel_openers

stop working after a while.

My mum had a stab-and-lever type:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_ope...pe_can_openers,

and, in particular, one like this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_ope...tesOpener3.jpg.

And I would like to buy one. If anyone can recommend a particular make
and model I shall be most grateful. Buy-able by mail order would be
most convenient.

--
[Dancing is] a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
G.B. Shaw quoted in /New Statesman/, 23 March 1962