Because last time we had coffee.
I can’t imagine what they used to grind coffee a hundred years ago at Hafiz Mustafa 1864. They probably had a bigger machine, after all, they are a coffee shop, not an afternoon siesta at the neighbor’s.
This grinder has always been in my family. I found it long forgotten on the top shelf of my mother’s pantry. When my memory goes back to my early years, I remember my grandmother used to grind coffee on it. Anyway, freshly ground coffee rules.
Although it is made of tin and iron, the bottom drawer is wooden.
And the color is classic, light blue.
The Titan factory, Kamnik, Slovenia, dates back to the nineteenth century. Such grinders were made just before WWII.
As a point of interest, Josip Broz Tito, the later president of Yugoslavia, worked there as a locksmith in 1911-12.
And like all the museum pieces that will appear on these pages, this one is not for sale. So don’t bother to ask…