Press

• Inv. no.: 13
• Type of item: Press
• Date or period: between 1918 and 1940
• Author: a carpenter from Brezje
• Material and technique: wood, stone, carving, turning
• Size: height 214 cm, width 92 cm, length 246 cm
• Subject: Grape Pressing
• Title: Wine Press
• Description: a massive wooden construction with a single-arm lever, a wooden screw, and a stone weigh; the central area for grape pressing is inside the wooden construction and it consists of (sliding) wooden planks. The grapes are placed inside the planks and at the bottom of the base, there is a small metal opening through which the juice drains.

Cask

• Inv. no: 490
• Type of item: Vessel
• Date or period: 1931
• Author: a local cooper
• Material and technique: oak wood, iron, cooper construction
• Size: diameter 213 cm, length 240 cm
• Subject: Wine Storage
• Marks and inscriptions: Roman numbers on the outside of the staves, coat-of-arms
• Distinctive features: The cask later changed its purpose, and a door was added, so that it can be entered. The cask is in the palace cellar.
• Description: This big, potbellied cylindrical wooden vessel is made of staves, held together by iron hoops. There is a bigger hinged door at the front of the barrel, added later and therefore treated as barrel damage. The smaller door is missing. At the top of the door, in the middle, a Croatian historical coat-of-arm is carved in, and some Roman numbers are engraved on the outside of the staves.

Gingerbread Mould

• Inv. no: 627
• Type of item: Mould
• Date or period: 1837
• Author: unknown
• Material and technique: wood, carving
• Size: height 25.5 cm, length 31.5 cm
• Subject: Horse
• Marks and inscriptions: 1837.
• Description: a wooden horse-shaped mould, used for gingerbread making.

Freight Sledge

• Inv. no: 666
• Type of item: Sledge
• Date or period: mid-20th century
• Author / country of origin: a local craftsman (Zagorje)
• Material and technique: wood, metal shackled, carpentered
• Size: total length 254 cm, height 49 cm
• Description: This big freight sledge was used for manure transport and for transporting wood from a forest. It was ox-drawn.

Bench (Kusa)

• Inv. no: 667
• Type of item: Wheelwright and cooper bench
• Date or period: mid-20th century
• Author / country of origin: a local craftsman (Zagorje, Brezje)
• Material and technique: wood
• Distinctive features: The craftsman who used the bench carved its vice in the shape of a human head, in order to have company while working, as he says.
• Description: a wheelwright and cooper bench on four legs with a head-shaped vice.