If you have an antique coffee grinder should you use them? It is understandable that if you do, there might be a chance that you might break it and we all know how precious antique furniture are.
That is how people who own this small coffee grinder feel about their antique coffee grinder. It is too precious for them to use and would rather place it on display in one of the shelves they have at home or keep it inside a vault. What they do is buy other coffee grinders, a Kitchenaid burr grinder perhaps to use for coffee making purposes.
To make you understand how precious an arcade coffee grinder is, this hand coffee grinder has been in existence since the 1800s. So those who are looking for them and find them know that what they have is a piece of their ancestors, a piece of coffee history and a piece of themselves. It has an iron classic arcade face with dark even patina.
It has a pine wood box with tongue.Do you know that the very rare arcade bell coffee mill's worth would go as high as $2,000.00 or maybe even more? This very rare grinder is one that are being sought after by serious collectors.
It does not really matter how the coffee mills performs because what you are after is it's historical value. It is a piece of furniture that holds an important part of the history of the coffee making industry. So, the value of the arcade grinder is not in the use of it, but the look of it.
The Value of an Arcade Coffee Grinder