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A lignum vitae coffee mill
of ovoid shape, on a stepped spreading foot, in three screw threaded sections, the base containing the handle, English, late 17th/early 18th century -- 9in. (22.8cm.) high
See Colour Plate.

Lot Essay

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
Owen Evan-Thomas, Domestic Utensils of Wood, Stobart Davies, Hertford 1973. Pages 81-82, similar examples illustrated fig. 31 & 33.
Edward H. Pinto, Treen and other Wooden Bygones, Bell and Hyman, London 1969. Pages 180-1, similar examples plate 180.

A very similar example was sold by Sotheby's, The W.J. Shepherd Collection of Treen, Wednesday 30th November 1983, lot 646.

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