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A lignum vitae coffee mill
the drum-shaped body with moulded ornament below a flared aperture, with wrought iron cranking handle, English, last quarter 18th century -- 4½in. (11.5cm) diam
See Illustration.

Lot Essay

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
Edward H. Pinto, Treen and Other Wooden Bygones, Bell & Hyman, London 1969. Page 180, a similar example is illustrated plate 180, fig. G.

Owen Evan-Thomas, Domestic Utensils of Wood, Stobart Davies, Hertford 1973. Pages 81-2, similar examples illustrated plate 31.

For a comparative example see Sotheby's, the W.J. Shepherd Collection of Treen, 30 November 1983, lot 648.

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