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The pictured item is 8 1/2 inches high by 36 inches wide by 15 inches deep.
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This is a cast iron wine corking tool, France, 19th century. Thank you for participating!
Pomegranate juicer
Its a bottle corker, we use one for our homemade wines.
Wine opener, they are reproduced today.
to attach snaps to fabric?
I was also thinking a bottle corker, but it looks like it’s made for something heavier duty. So my guess is that it is for making shoes/ boots, to put in the metal stays for lacing/ securing.
I’m thinking it’s a bottle cap press, for capping beer or soda bottles.
Nice piece. Definitely not for reloading shotgun shells, and shotgun shells are processed in guides to keep them up right.
I’ll bet it’s for home brewed beer.
This week’s what’s it is a wine corking machine
Please fix the dimensions so we have a better idea of the measurements!
The dimensions are obviously wrong.
Be that as it may, I believe it is a Medicine bottle corker or a bottle stopper-putter-inner !!
I don’t understand the dimensions. The dimensions say that it is over 4 times wider than it is tall and that it is twice as deep as it is tall. It appears to be about as wide as it is tall and half as deep as it is tall. If it is 36 inches tall it could be a bottle capper or a wine bottle corker but at 8 1/2 inches tall it is only about as tall as a beer bottle. It might be a medicine bottle corker. I have some mini cork screws for removing medicine bottle corks.
Bottle Capper
I would use it to pit cherries
Looks like a device for putting caps on bottles.
It a wine bottle corker for pressing corks into bottles – though it could be the other way round – a bottle degouger for removing corks from the first firmentation of champagnes
Is it a nut cracker?
it’s too short to be a bottle capper, I think it’s a reloader for shotgun shells. I bet that thing still works!
bottle capper
Crown top bottle capper
A soda bottle hand capper.
I think it is a cherry pitter.
Or is it an apple-corer?
it’s a cherry pitter.
Could also be a shotgun shell loader.
It’s a hand press – but for what? It has a liquid catcher at the bottom for saving the valuable overflow. I guess it could be to install medicine bottle corks. Too small for wine in my opinion.
It will uncork wine bottles.
Home brew bottle capper
It’s a wine bottle corker
Join the discussion…Bottle corker or capper.