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Sunday 17 March 2024

23/08/1950 - Lecco - Mostra dell'artigianato


What is the coffee maker the nearest to us?


The middle one is a Robbiati Model A Tipo P
The furtherest one a Robbiati Model A Tipo G

But in the front?

It looks - to me - like something between a Model A and a Model B.

Never seen... but maybe i am dreaming!

Sébastien Delprat is a good man.
(He shared the link with me)

Thursday 29 February 2024

Judith Stern about her father Desider

Thank you Judith for the invitation to the opening evening of this exhibition in literaturhaus.

Thanks for letting us know him even more... and for the chance to hear your thoughts on your father again.

He was truly one-of-a-kind!



ONLY KNOWN ADVERT IN AN ITALIAN NEWSPAPER - June 1949

This is provided to you by Sébastien Delprat!

Thursday 11 May 2023

For Leaflets, Patents, Adverts, Photos of my Collection, go to my Flickr page

 http://www.flickr.com/photos/stellabanana/?

And click on Albums!

To the contributors of this Blog: THANK YOU!

Dear Readers,

Creating this Blog is dream come true.

Believe me, i wouldn't have, in my wildest dreams, thought to ever find the relatives of the manufacturers i cherish, let alone meeting some of them. Nor to find so many artifacts, articles, magazines, leaflets, patents, archives... and machines. Nor would i have thought i would meet charismatic people out there that i now treasure to be my friends.

I remember very well the day i got told, by someone wiser than me: "I know the answer, but i won't tell you", to which my wife added: "me too". This "smart" remark led to the personal motto of this Blog nearly 2 years ago: I didn't know a thing and was well prepared to tell it to the world. 

My passion for these manufacturers caused many many sleepless nights. Retrospectively, it would be dishonest not to admit that both my interest, my eager and ever growing ability to find information exceed what some might say is the norm. In my defence: Not in a lifetime was i to think there was so much to be found on the subject. It has been a treat, a gift of life: being able to write the Blog one would have wished to find right at the start, that's plain luxury, an amateur's dream.

All things considered though, I am convinced anyone - with a minimum of interest - could have done this research. This is not false modesty. It is so obvious to me that no reliable information was to be found back then, because nobody tried and/or cared. If i can make an advise here to people who wish to research the history of the coffee machine they collect, just dare ask and never look back! There is always a way. It can be done: i am the living proof. You will never regret it. Probably the biggest challenge i have faced was to learn to ignore the insults of a few persons who think they own the monopoly on what they call the "truth". No worries though: The highest you climb the mountain, the less you'll hear the goats baa in the valley. 

I take this occasion today to thank all the cooperative, patient, kind and willing families - Delle Vedove, Sassoon, Simon, Stern, Robbiati & Tarditi -, open-hearted friends, passionate collectors (If i can name three: the legendary Lucio Del Piccolo, the enthusiast Monsieur "A", and reputable Sébastien Delprat), interested local journalists, conscientious museum employees, meticulous patent officers, precise commerce chamber employees, helpful mayors, professional librarians and motivated taxi-drivers for their time and altruism... and all the online auction websites users who, realising  my fascination in their items, sent me extra information, a scan, a photo... all little pieces of information without which i couldn't have quenched my thirst for knowledge, fuelled my curiosity. I am very well aware that the Blog would not have been what it is without every single of the individuals involved.

Love, Peace, Harmony,
& be curious!!!
Sincerely,
Mik "Knatterton" Janvier

35.10.73
VI.7I.W3

EVER TRIED,
EVER FAILED,
NO MATTER,
TRY AGAIN,
FAIL AGAIN,
FAIL BETTER.
(Samuel Beckett)

It is better to fail in originality,
than to succeed in imitation.

(Herman Melville)

Coffee Descaler "Rapid" - Yankee Polish, Lüth & Co. K.G. - A. Axelrath

 Yet to be discovered... The Kesselsteinreiniger "Rapid"...

Yet, it existed...

... as this on this leaflet:


... or on this Archive picture:


Printed with a Stella Model 402E.

I have seen a - maybe commercial - suitcase of Yankee Polish lately.

The Descaler was there but with another 'random' print as see here:



Unfortunately, not much to be found on the business Yankee Polish itself... 


The future - or someone with more information - will tell.