[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]  $150

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