Artist: Peugeot
Museum: Balamand Centre for Digital Humanities Morphe (Morphe, Balamand, Lebanon)
Technique: Iron
A cubic grinder with a flat base, topped with an iron domed cap to which is attached a crank. One of two types of coffee grinders, this individual-use cubic grinder was invented and commercialized by the Peugeot family around the year 1840. The coffee beans are inserted from the ? of the cap and the powdered coffee falls in a compartment housed by a drawer in the bottom of the box. A brass plaque is fastened with a screw above the drawer and shows the manufacturer
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