[Rarebooks] FS: 1892 Lenk Wine Co. Toledo Ohio Wine Barrel Shaped Booklet

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1892 Lenk Wine Co. Toledo Ohio Wine Barrel Shaped Booklet.

Toledo, around 1892. An attractive and clever promotional booklet shaped 
like one of the wine casks of which the company was so proud. The text 
describes the winery and is illustrated with cuts of the factory and 
interior and a few photographs of the surrounding countryside.

Lenk Wine Company, “growers and wholesale dealers in native wines”, was 
founded in 1867 and incorporated in 1872; they farmed 28 acres of “fine, 
rolling land, splendidly adapted to the cultivation of the vine. The 
grounds are handsomely laid out and present a beautiful appearance of 
shaded avenues and walks with verdant, well-kept lawns, embellished with 
shrubbery and flower gardens, and dotted here and there with rustic 
arbors and summer houses of unique design”. But wait, that’s not all- 
“the main buildings are supplied with basements or cellars, where the 
wine is stored in huge casks varying in capacity from 1,000 gallons to 
36,000 gallons each, the total capacity being the enormous amount of 
850,000 gallons, While upon this subject, it will prove of interest to 
state that the company’s cask having a capacity of 36,000 gallons, is 
the largest one of the kind in the world in use… This cask measures 21 
feet in length, and is twenty feet in diameter. Its top is reached by a 
flight of steps, twenty-nine in number, where there is a platform for 
visitor”.

The wineries leading wines were Dry Catawba, Sweet Catawba, Iona, 
Norton’s Virginia Seedling, Ives’ Seedling, claret, and port. The 28 
acres, with all those lawns, arbors and shrubberies came nowhere near to 
producing enough grapes to fill the enormous vats, and the company 
purchased grapes from the lake Erie islands “and other vineyards”. Lenk 
wines won a medal at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair.

Paper covers. 5.75”x4.5”, 12 pages, black & white illustrations. Minor 
soil, light wear. [43392]  $200

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