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Tucker Coffee Co. Letterhead

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Today we recieved a piece of letterhead from the Tucker Coffee Company estimated to be from the 1920’s. Tucker was located at 422-424 Ruiz Street, San Antoni...

Newspaper Clippings Gallery

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Using online archives of scanned newspapers, we have been collecting clippings of news articles, advertisements, and related items. A section for Newspaper C...

Small Kork-N-Seal Extract Bottle

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eBay has delivered us a new mystery. We picked up an “Antique H & H Coffee spice, possibly vanilla, extract jar” that was part of an estate in Vinton, Vi...

One Pound Crystalvac Jar

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We bought a collection of jars found in an estate sale from MiksJunkDrawer in Somerset, Texas. It included a Crystalvac One Pound jar.

Mi Tierra Café & Master Chef

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The San Antonio Express-News printed an article about Mi Tierra on May 7th, 2015 which included a photo of the front of the café with a large H and H Master ...

Delaware Punch Soda Bottle

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The bottle caught our eye since it was manufactured by Three Rivers Glass Co., who did the Crystalvac jars for H and H. The bottle is depicted in the book Te...

San Antonio Nexapa

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We found San Antonio Nexapa by Helen Seargeant, on Ebay. It is a true account of the life of a pioneer family on a coffee plantation at the foot of Mt. Tacan...

Cold Brewing Coffee

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A recent trend in making coffee is cold brewing. To try making it ourselves we chose a Cold Bruer, another successfully Kickstarted product. By loading fres...