William H. Ukers coffee books
William Harrison Ukers (1873–1945) wrote the standard early-20th-century references on coffee and in 1901 helped start the Coffee and Tea Trade Journal. In A...
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H and H High Grade one-pound vacuum tin
In August 2014 we added this one-pound cylindrical can from eBay. The litho is the High Grade vacuum packed layout: a red top band with the silver H and H ma...
Alamo Cook Book (Hoffmann-Hayman)
In July 2014 we bought this at Magic Carpet Books, a used-and-rare shop. The Alamo Cook Book is a stapled, buff-paper retail booklet with a black Alamo view ...
Master Chef “We Serve” hand-painted sign
Debbie Keneson turned up a large hand-painted Master Chef board: a thin plywood panel, roughly 4 by 8 feet, with a red field and white Master Chef serif lett...
Third Crystalvac jar — clear, bail, base 5
On 8 July 2014 we closed another eBay Crystalvac for the comparison shelf. The jar is clear glass in the square Crystalvac plan: molded shoulder relief with ...
Household Institute three-piece percolator
The listing read like an H and H aluminum pot, so we took a closer look. The piece is a three-part stovetop percolator: a tall brushed-aluminum carafe with a...
Wait! Spices?
On the second floor, a stave of wood is screwed to the ceiling, blocking one of the old roof-vent cutouts. It is printed Domestic Paprika; from the shape, it...
Three Tins and a Crystalvac jar, Comfort
Debbie Keneson set more stock aside for the collection on the same Comfort, Texas, circuit that handled the June 2014 hand-off in Three Rivers: a one-pound a...