Grinding Through Time: An Expert's Guide to Dating Antique Coffee Mills
Grinding Mechanism: Turkish style grinders with rod-and-mortar grinding are among the oldest, dating to the 18th century or earlier. Box grinders with knob handles and simple burr mills are also quite old, usually pre-1850. Grinders with cast iron wheel cranks and sophisticated burr sets are later, from the mid-1800s to early 1900s.
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