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Okay, we make wine from high quality juice--my buddy use to make wine from grapes but stopped when his daughter complained about the smell--well--I got my hands on a old Baccelieri Brothers #25 wine press. The previous owner found it in someones yard in pieces and restored it with the intention to use it for making cider--but he's been getting poor apple production lately and decided to sell it--he's also 77 so maybe that had a factor to it also, idk, this puppy is HEAVY. All he knows it's from the very early 1900's. The patented numbers are B135 B138 B137 B139, that's all I could find. It says 25 Baccelieri Bro's, Phila Pa on all the bases' legs--so--we know it's a size 25 and company based out of Philadelphia--which is great because we live outside of Philly and my brother lives in West Philly--so--we're all Pennsy people.

The previous owner restored it really nice, using food grade, anti-acidic reacting materials.

I plan on using this because I'm hell bent on making wine from grapes with or without any or all of my wine making buddies lol. I make wine with two separate batches of friends, the one crew is happy just using the juice and the other crew is a mixed bag--so--i might just do it at home--we'll see.

Anyone have any more info on these Baccerlieri Bro's wine presses?

I've read that their main office was in Philly with the factory in Berlin, NJ--they made fruit presses and crushers from caste iron and had a few patented's that the last one expired under Brian Baccelieri in the early 2000's (maybe 2006?) due to no more contact with proper patent departments. I've also read someone had a Peter Baccelieri wine press, so, somewhere along the way the brothers broke away from each other, or bought each other out, or who knows, went into business together later on--I don't really know because there's not a whole lot of info online.

The main difference from what I can see online (and it's hard) is that the one I have has a handle area that is square, not round like the others--square on the outside--the handle insert is round.
 
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Okay, there’s some of the before and after pics—he did all the refurbishing as I said in the first post.

He did a great job!
 
well, it appears the press is bigger then a 25 because the basket is 14 1/2 inside width by 18 inches high
 
I saw the first picture and my first thought was, "well, that's NOT a good restoration!" 🤣

The previous owner did a very nice job.

I have a #40 (15.75" internal diameter) press I purchased used a few years ago. It's probably 20 to 30 years old, and most of it looks very similar to yours. My ratchet is smaller than your, but it's still a chunk of iron that needs two hands and some bracing to pick up. I managed to get the base in and out of my truck when I purchased it, but no longer do such stupid things -- when I move it, I have one of my sons help.

If you get more information, please post.
 
I saw the first picture and my first thought was, "well, that's NOT a good restoration!" 🤣

The previous owner did a very nice job.

I have a #40 (15.75" internal diameter) press I purchased used a few years ago. It's probably 20 to 30 years old, and most of it looks very similar to yours. My ratchet is smaller than your, but it's still a chunk of iron that needs two hands and some bracing to pick up. I managed to get the base in and out of my truck when I purchased it, but no longer do such stupid things -- when I move it, I have one of my sons help.

If you get more information, please post.

definitely! i did some research on the Baccellieri name in the Philly region and it looks like there was 3 brothers, and maybe one broke away and started making presses on his own for one reason or another

there's just not a whole lot of info out there on the net--and i haven't seen any with a square outside of the handle port mechanism yet--i've been looking and was hoping others here had Baccellieri presses

the Baccellieri Bro's made fruit presses, fruit crushers and dessert mold/cutters

i wonder if they started calling the wine presses fruit presses during prohibition lol

just looking at this press, and thinking of the history behind it is amazing to me--from being made--to making wine--passed on to who???then ends up rotting in someones yard?? all the guy could tell me was that he was told it's from the early 1900's--he said it's over 100 years old

i can't wait to get it back making wine

i will post picks

my great grandmother was called Bacci so maybe i'll name her Bacci
 

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