Since I am a fan of fresh coffee, and I am currently sitting here drinking a cup, I decided to go with another coffee item for this week's theme. This is a favorite item of mine, a vintage original coffee mill that I acquired at a local auction several years ago. It was manufactured by George Selsor & Co, and it was patented in February 1871.
Well, if I was a coffee drinker, this would make me feel like having a cup- it's very warm and inviting. Like many others, I love the smell of it brewing, but the closest I come to partaking in it is coffee ice cream or a mocha frappe- and I'm trying my best not to have too much of either of them! Nice shot.
You are doing well with the theme !! This is a lovely piece of equipment & looks well loved ! I expect the wood has retained that gorgeous coffee smell too !!
We had one of these, I loved to sound and smell that went with grinding the coffee. Your photos really capture the vintage feel, I need to work on that.
This reminds me of home when I was a child...of course I was too young to get coffee but I loved the smell of it..my parents were coffee drinkers and I was never intoduced to tea...not my fav. drink.
Great theme picture Rick.
@cirasj Actually Joe,if you renovate, refinish, re-do anything that is an antique, it does take away from its value. Not that it is valuable, but it does affect the desirability of a perspective buyer should you decide to sell.
@digitalrn thank you Rick. I use to restore old windows, from early Colonial New England, and we has a way for restoring them without making them lose their value. I guess it is not the same with antiques.
I was thinking of the Manhattan Transfer song--
I love coffee, I love tea, I love the Java Jive and it loves me...
Great theme picture Rick.