RainierView Loc: Eatonville, WA

We bought this at a garage sale for $1.00 around 20 years ago. It's been in my garage with my antique tool collection ever since. Didn't know what it was then and neither did the seller. I'm guessing it's for pressing bottle caps on, or worlds first wine bottle opener missing the part that goes into the cork. HaHa.

Does anyone know what this was used for?

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tradio Loc: Oxford, Ohio

It's a bottle capper.
Nice collection.

WCS

I'll drink to that!

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Bottle capper or cork inserter.

Wallen Loc: Middle Earth

Nice collection

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

It’s a piece of junk taking up space in the garage. It could be the addition to a museum’s collection, though, if you find someone who wants it.

DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

Bottle capper. I had one when we used to make root beer in the basement.

A cork inserter was different. There was a clamp to compress the cork to get it small enough to slide into the neck of the wine bottle without breaking off pieces of cork. Then a pin would push it in.

Root beer was easy to make. A clean garbage can (with a lid), a couple pounds of sugar, 5 gallons of water and a little one ounce bottle of flavoring. We used Hires brand. It was available in a local grocery store. Add 1 package of yeast and stir. Then put it into bottles and cap them. We would then place the bottles into a laundry tub and cover them with a towel. The towel prevented glass from flying around the basement when a bottle exploded and the laundry tub allowed the liquid to drain away without messing up the basement. After a few days to ferment, you refrigerate them all so they stop fermenting. You can adjust that time a bit to keep the pressure in the bottle down. The root beer could produce a 3 foot high fountain if you weren't careful opening the bottle.

That recipe is from memory and I might have forgotten a couple of things since we did that in the '60s.

Tried making regular beer also. Terrible stuff resulted. The wine wasn't too bad but I found it easier to buy wine from someone who knew what they were doing.

bobmcculloch Loc: NYC, NY

Bottle capper, have one downstairs, from my wife's uncle, when I was home brewing.

RoswellAlien

Bottle capper. Dad made beer — ONCE. Used cleaned out Lone Star longneck bottles. (It was awful!!! — Dad’s beer, not the Lone Star.)

Blair Shaw Jr Loc: Dunnellon,Florida

It's a Bottle Caper for like home made Root Beer or other stuff you might be brewing in your dungeon.

Richard Spencer Loc: Evansville, Indiana

Used one of these when I was a kid back in the 1930's and the family made catsup. My job was to cap the bottles among other things.

Overthehill1

Bottlecapper. Had one during my brief homebrewing days.

Harvey Loc: Pioneer, CA

Yes - used one a lot when I was making my home brew beer.

Abo

Yep it's for sealing "Crown Seals"... the (once upon a time) ubiquitous bottle cap

tomad Loc: North Carolina

Yep, bottle capper. Had a similar one (a little less rusty) years ago when I lived in Saudi Arabia and made my own beer.