Can you solve this mystery?
Ninety-four-year old Advance historian and archeologist Paul Corbin has sent me a bit of a mystery to solve tonight. It seems that his friend Leon Wilton came to his house this weekend with a couple of fruit jars. Nothing unusual about that, but when Mr. Corbin saw the jars, he was perplexed. Both ends had screw-on lids! The green jar, he explains, has a built-in glass funnel.
I've done a fair amount of canning in my day, but I've never seen anything like this. I have no idea if any of our fellow bloggers are old enough to help us solve this mystery.
What do you think, folks? Has anyone ever seen such a thing?? The answer will probably be so simple that we'll feel pretty stupid -- but it isn't often that Paul Corbin is mystified by a product from the past. He sold Watkins' products all over the countryside back in the 1930's, and I thought he'd seen everything!
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In fact, after kk's posting, something clicked in Mr. Corbin's head, and he went down to that museum of antiques which he calls a "basement" and found an old coffee mill, which he's going to clean up. He says the top jar is in good condition, but the bottom jar is missing.
We'll collaborate on a follow-up blog, compiling all our current information!
I cannot BELIEVE how many photos you have on your javaholics site!! I never knew such a multitude of coffee coffee mills existed!