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Ray's Collection
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The love affair with coffee, blends and flavored
coffee runs deep within our souls for Sandy and I. A
passion not only for good coffee but for the beauty
of how coffee evolved over the past 100 years. The
craftsmanship of old roasters, the deco grinders,
beautiful graphic tins, old coffee signs and the
general store where you could get your beans ground.
That look; that era, keeps us in search of coffee
memorabilia. For almost 20 years we have hunted,
searched, dug through antiques stores, flea markets,
auctions, estate sales, anywhere we might find one
new coffee tin or a cool 40s coffee grinder buried
in the back of the store. Some of my personal
favorites are our four Royal Coffee Roasters that we
have found; a #7 - 50 lb roaster, a #5 - 15 lb
roaster, a #4 - 12 lb roaster and then an original
#1 - 5 lb roaster on its original wooden platform
with the original stencil. These roasters are very
ornate and true works of art. We also collect Texas
coffee tins with a passion. The coffee train is from
a Brownwood Texas roaster. When you purchased the
coffee it came in a tin and inside the tin was the
wheel assembly to put on the tin after the coffee
was gone making it a part of the train. How cool is
that? Also several other Texas coffee roasters put
coffee in a 5 lb metal bucket shaped like a pail
with a handle. After the coffee was gone, the bucket
(pail) was used to milk the cows while the lid
served as a pan for baking biscuits. We love it and
we wanted to share some of our finds with you! Also,
at the same time show you some of the history of how
coffee got us here with beauty. Enjoy!
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