A Coffee Grinder

"My wife purchased what appears to be an old German coffee grinder yesterday at an estate sale.

It is missing something at the top. I am assuming that it must be some sort of funnel. Does anyone know about, or have a picture of, a complete grinder? I will make the piece if necessary. (Using old handtools for OT content.)

The small plaque at the bottom of the piece reads, "Patentamtl Geschutzt," and then, "Geschmiedet Werk."  My 50 year old college German tells me that this means ,"Patent Protected", and "Factory Forged."  This is how I know that it is German made.

Yup, probably a tapered hopper type connector, to either a glass jar or a box with a glass front.  I have an interesting story about one of these type grinders. Mine is Yankee made.

Anyway a guy I know found the works while bottle digging in an old dump.  Just the grinder part, nothing else.  Gave it to me one day.

Some, 20 years later I was bottle digging in another dump not far away.

I was digging through parts of an old cast iron cookstove.  I'd pull out a piece and toss it back over my shoulder one after another.  Well, I got one piece and had it all the way up heading back but just before I let go of it, some brain cell farted and I held onto it.  Pulled it back where I could see it and kind of thought, "I wonder if..."  Tossed it into my backpack and brought it home.

Sure enough, it was the hopper connector piece to the same model grinder found 20 years apart in the next door neighbor's dump. Must have handled the brand at the local mercantile.

I scrounged up a sun turned purple piece of glass tile and made a back/shelf/box for it from some local chinkapin wood.  Found a small turned purple drawer pull for the top and some punched brass to corral the cup.

Oh, in the pic is Kitty's grandmas Sunkist orange squeezer.  A Cal original and the only actual sun colored purple one I ever saw. 

The later made ones, and there are thousands/millions out there, never turn purple since the glass was bleached with selenium after WW1.  Manganese was used before the war and it's manganese that breaks down in ultraviolet light and turns purple.

Yours, Scott