Press, Wine

Object number2010.14.18 a-m

Manufacturer Berarducci Brothers Manufacturing Company

Datec. 1940

OriginMcKeesport, PA

MediumIron; Wood

Credit LineGift of Marilyn Di Matteis

DescriptionWine press with iron rod handle, wooden barrel body, pair of semi-circular wood covers, and four pairs of wood blocks. Tripod base.DimensionsHeight x Width x Depth (a-c together): 43.25 × 22.5 × 20.75 in. (109.9 × 57.2 × 52.7 cm)
Height x Width x Depth (a): 43.25 × 22.5 × 20.75 in. (109.9 × 57.2 × 52.7 cm)
Length x Diameter (b): 15 × 0.75 in. (38.1 × 1.9 cm)
Height x Width x Depth (c): 18.25 × 16 × 15 in. (46.4 × 40.6 × 38.1 cm)
Height x Width x Length (d): 3.25 × 5.5 × 11.75 in. (8.3 × 14 × 29.8 cm)
Height x Width x Length (e): 3.375 × 5.5 × 11.625 in. (8.6 × 14 × 29.5 cm)
Height x Width x Length (f): 1.75 × 1.875 × 8 in. (4.4 × 4.8 × 20.3 cm)
Height x Width x Length (g): 1.625 × 2.25 × 7.938 in. (4.1 × 5.7 × 20.2 cm)
Height x Width x Length (h): 3 × 2.125 × 8 in. (7.6 × 5.4 × 20.3 cm)
Height x Width x Length (i): 3 × 2 × 8.125 in. (7.6 × 5.1 × 20.6 cm)
Height x Width x Length (j): 3 × 1.938 × 7.938 in. (7.6 × 4.9 × 20.2 cm)
Height x Width x Length (k): 3 × 2.25 × 8 in. (7.6 × 5.7 × 20.3 cm)
Height x Width x Length (l): 1.938 × 3 × 7.875 in. (4.9 × 7.6 × 20 cm)
Height x Width x Length (m): 1.563 × 3.625 × 7.938 in. (4 × 9.2 × 20.2 cm)
Marks(a)
Each leg exterior has raised text "C4 / BERARDUCCI BROS MF'G Co / MCKEESPORT PA".
Historical NotesThis wine press was used by donor Marilyn Di Matteis' family every September to make wine for the year. Part of a collection that represents three generations of donor Marilyn Di Matteis' family of Italian Americans in the Western Pennsylvania area. Her father was born in the United States, went back to Italy, and then returned as a young teenager in the mid-1920s. His family stayed behind in Italy. He had a very difficult relationship with his father and revered his mother. The donor's mother (Elvira Martinelli) was born in Italy and came to the United States as a young girl, though she was never naturalized until the late 1940s. Her family settled in Dennison, Ohio, to work on the railroads but moved south to Weirton, West Virginia. The railroad work as not particularly constant, so other forms of work were often substituted, such as picking up vegetables in the Strip District when the train stopped in Pittsburgh and selling them in West Virginia to neighbors. The family also had a farm at various points in their lives. The young couple married in 1934 and bought a farm in the 1940s.

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