All about Antique : Antique Coffee Grinders

When you think of grinding coffee beans, imagine a modern day electric coffee grinder or one of the many beautiful antique coffee grinders in previous decades?The oldest coffee mill: a mortar and pestle

Since the ancient Egyptians, people have been grinding coffee beans ground to enjoy the delicious drink that could make the powder. For many years a stone, wood or steel mortar used to grind the beans.
However, housed in museums in the United States and Europe are examples of the exquisite bronze mortar pestles and coffee from the seventeenth century belonged to the prosperous times. These beautiful utilitarian objects are examples of the craftsmanship of the Dutch, German and English.A Brief History of Coffee Grinders

From the fifteenth century invention of the first mill spices are also used for grinding coffee, by adding ground coffee to take the draw in the eighteenth century, coffee mills has undergone many changes and improvements. The following are several of these changes:

    * The improvement of the various types of Turkish bread, including the cylinder, pocket and sander combination with folding cup
    * The Richard Dearman was granted a patent for a new kind of English coffee grinder in 1789.
    * The first American patent for an improved coffee grinder was granted to Thomas Bruff Sr. in 1798. His invention was the beginning of the wall coffee grinder.
    * American Alexander Duncan Moore granted a patent for an improved type of coffee grinder in 1813.
Over the coming decades, many patents granted for improved versions of the coffee grinder in American, English and French inventors. Manufacturers produced coffee mills of various types that included:

    * Steel cans
    * Frame or lap
    * Upright
    * Wall post or side mounted
    * Double wheel
Gold and Jeweled Antique Coffee Grinders
A beautiful example of early oriental coffee shop in the design of an Indo-Persian housed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Made of teak and brass, this wonderful nineteenth century, coffee shop, known as a coffee grinder is decorated with red and green jewels. Within the teak wood is inlaid with ivory and bronze, which is an excellent model. This old treasure can be viewed on page 600 of William Harrison Ukers All coffee on Google books.
Another great coffee mill belonged to the mistress of Louis XV, Madame de Pompadour. Describes a gold coffee grinder in the census of 1765. The mill coffee, made from gold, was decorated with sculptures of gold color in the image of the branches of a tree coffee.Collecting Antique Coffee Grinders
Although these types of old coffee mills are not for the average collector, there are many antique and vintage coffee grinders are available at auctions and antique shops and off-line. However, before buying an old coffee grinder always make sure that the item is properly advertised and is not a marriage, which is a combination of pieces from different models.
Generally, most collectors look for coffee mills of the nineteenth and twentieth century. The following are the manufacturers of the United States:

    * Arcade
    * Business
    * Landers Frary and Clark
    * Logan and Stonebridge
    * Parker
    * Steinfeld
    * Wilmot Castle
    * Wrightsville Hardware Company
Coffee Grinders from European manufacturers include:

    * Trosser Armin - German
    * DEVE - Netherlands
    * Elma - Spain
    * Kenrick - England
    * Pede (Peter dienes) - German company, as coffee is spelled Kaffee
    * Pede (Peter dienes - Netherlands company, as coffee is spelled koffie
    * Patentado - Basque Country, Spain from MSF Company
    * Sponge - England

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