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Wonderful Early 19th C. Treen Spice Grater
Charming and early three-piece treen spice grater. Probably English, early 1800s, with incised rings, filets leading into balusters, the whole resting on a substantial turned foot. The topmost piece is a turned handle with a tinned iron grating surface attached at the base. The stage below is a second tinned iron grating surface that rotates against the grating surface above and reduces the spice trapped between—nutmeg, coriander, tumeric—to a powder that drops through into the third stage, a reservoir base. There is one chip on the turned rim of the upper stage, there are worm holes in the reservoir section (not surprising—when they asked Willie Sutton why he robbed banks, his response was, “Because that’s where the money is.” Or, in this case, that’s where the spices are.)
Chip aside, this is virtually perfect condition.
$795
