This wood and molded-iron hopper is
from a wine press built and used
in Philadelphia about 1890 by Karl
Kinzinger, an immigrant from a wine-
making region in southern Germany. In
the first stage of wine-making, the
juice was extracted from grapes and fed into
the hopper-crusher that sat atop a
"mash" barrel of wood. The
grapes were probably native Concords.
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