Rare Early Spice or Pepper Mill

Rare Early Spice Pepper Mill
Solid Turned Fruitwood and Ash
English c.1720

10 ¼” high x 4 ¾” wide x 3 ½” deep

Literature: Owen Evan-Thomas, Domestic Utensils of Wood, EP Publishing Ltd 1973 p.85 Plate 33, illustrates similar mill of this rare form and Evan Thomas states it is ”...interesting as having a rotary action, and is an early form....English early eighteenth century.”

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