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Tuesday 25 February 2014

Replacement parts...

Replacement parts for Szigony/Qualital coffee makers.
It came together with a coffee machine which leaflet dated 1973 (see here).



Stella Wien - Model 405E

I have been after this model for ever since i made this pictures here

In most cases, i assume that one can guess the size of a coffee machine when you see a picture on an advert:



Or on a vintage letter, presenting the advantages of it:




Or on this original picture of a fair in the Netherlands:


But i was not prepared.

I knew it was big.
Now i know, it is HUGE:


 

Saturday 22 February 2014

Things just don't change... don't they?

We (Men) all do it: making coffee.

We rarely know why.

Here, in an 1967 advert, the Bon Trading Co. gives us the deep-rooted psychological reason:

"It gives them a feeling of domestic independence."


Tuesday 18 February 2014

"Electa" Brevettata... n°6

There has been the only stove-top-only version:


This one, that a friend of mine spotted in a private collection:


This one,


which is now in Lucio Del Piccolo's collection:


This one,


which has joined my collection,


as well as this one:


here:


Both together:


 And lately, i received this picture from Giorgio Gennaro: 


All the same... all different (see here).

But Giorgio's picture made me shake my head in disbelief,
because never had i seen this:


All the other machines i knew have this knob:


2014... the never ending story.

Thursday 13 February 2014

Prototype...

(Remember this here)


Well,
I had to see the original patent,
And i had to experience this prototype again,
And i had to share these pictures with you now.

It's visceral.










 

Saturday 8 February 2014

And meanwhile in Nome, Alaska!

From a Discovery Channel series about Gold mining in the Bering Sea.

Thanks for the Screenshot Håkan!


Brevetti Robbiati Model "B" with Steamer

Monday 3 February 2014

The "Gorrea" is back...

The "Gorrea" is back not as a Model A
(here)
but as a Model B
(here
and this time, it's without steamer: