ANTIQUE VICTORIAN 1890S LOVELOCK NO 4 COFFEE GRINDER

THIS WONDERFUL CAST IRON COFFEE GRINDER WAS MADE IN LONDON ENGLAND DURING THE VICTORIAN ERA (1880-1920) AND IS A WORKING EXAMPLE OF THE QUALITY WORKMANSHIP OF THE PAST.
 
MADE AND MARKED LOVELOCK LONDON NO.4. HAVE A MOUNTING TABLE BRACKET WITH 3 CAST IRON MOUNTING HOLES.
 
IN AN AD FROM 1899 (SEE EXTRA PHOTO) LOVELOCK DESCRIBED HIS IMPROVED COFFEE MILLS AS UNRIVALLED FIR THEIR SIMPLICITY AND EFFICIENCY AND THEY HAVE AN SUPERIOR FINISH.
 
SIZE 40CM HIGH 20CM WIDE 32CM DEEP WITH HANDLE WEIGHT AROUND 5KG
 
CONDITION: IN WONDERFUL CONDITION. LITTLE SURFACE RUST. GRINDING MECHANISM IN WORKING ORDER. I HAVE NOT TRIED TO GRIND BEANS BUT THE GRINDING BLADES IS IN GOOD SHAPE AND SHOULD OPERATE AS DESIGNED. WOODEN HANDLE ALSO IN TACT.
 
JAMES LOVELOCK (1880-1920s):
J. F. Lovelock (Engineers) of Hackney was hardware manufacturers of domestic appliances.James Lovelock established the business but his son James Frederick carried on the business.
Their place of manufacture was always called Broadway Works but in adverts spanning 1880-1899 the street name is variously George Street, Hamburg Street and 201 Mare Street. George Street had its name changed to Hamburg Street some time between 1882 and 1887 (and that changed again to its present name of Croston Street in 1918). The move to Mare Street by 1891 was an attempt to go up-market.
In the 1921 London Street Directory lists them as still being in Mare Street: 'Lovelock Jas F & Sons Ltd, engineers (Broadway Works)' The firm was diversifying and, besides mincing machines and suet choppers, included an 'improved' coffee mill (from 1882) and a knife-cleaning machine (1899).
 
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