1890 ADVERTISING STORE TINS ~ LADIES PORTRAITS ~ BEST RIO & EXTRA RIO COFFEE

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1890 ADVERTISING STORE TINS ~ LADIES PORTRAITS ~ BEST RIO & EXTRA RIO COFFEE ↓ ↓↓ SCROLL DOWN TO SEE ALL PICTURES ↓ ↓↓ ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// AGAIN THIS MONTH, WE ARE OFFERING MORE EXAMPLES OF ANTIQUE AND COLLECTIBLE ITEMS FROM A NUMBER OF MISSISSIPPI AND LOUISIANA ESTATES PLEASE CHECK OUR OTHER EBAY LISTINGS FOR MORE FINE ARTIFACTS ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// DESCRIPTION WITH A GREAT DEAL OF RESEARCH, IT WOULD SEEM "BEST RIO" AND "EXTRA RIO" WERE SUBSTANDARD GRADES OF COFFEE, SOLD IN THE LATTER PART OF THE 1800s. IN PENNSYLVANIA, ATTRIBUTED TO 1895, DOCUMENTATION FROM STATE DOCUMENT DESCRIBES THE COFFEE BRAND AS ~ A MIXTURE, COMPOUNDED OF COFFEE AND A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF CHICKORY, WHEAT, RYE OR PEAS, DRIED AND BROWNED, AND LABELED ~ BEST RIO ~ PRIME RIO ~ FRENCH TTLO ~ OR ~ BROKEN JAVA, AND THE WORDS ~ COFFEE COMPOUND, SHOWING THE NATURE OF THE MIXTURE, CANNOT BE SOLD IN PENNSYLVANIA ~ IT IS AN ADULTERATION WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE ACT OF JUNE 26,1895. IN NEW YORK, A MERCHANTS PUBLICATION FROM THE SAME PERIOD, RELATING THE HISTORY OF COFFEE, OFFERS ~ BUT PERHAPS THE MOST AUDACIOUS EXPLOIT OF THE COFFEE MERCHANT IS ONE OF LATE DATE. IT IS WELL KNOWN THAT THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT SUPPLIED ITS SOLDIERS IN THE FIELD, DURING THE LATE WAR, WITH THE FINEST OF COFFEE ; WHILE TO THE CITIZEN WAS LEFT THE COMMONEST TRASH AT THE HIGHEST FIGURE. UNDER THESE CIRCUMSTANCES A FIRM IN NEW YORK, PROMPTED, NO DOUBT, BY HUMANITARIAN FEELINGS. UNDERTOOK TO REVAMP THE GROUNDS LEFT FROM THE CAMP-KETTLES, BY DRYINGAND MIXING, HUNDREDS OF BARRELS OF WHICH WERE RETURNED TO NEW YORK AND SOLD AS EXTRA RIO TO THE GREAT SATISFACTION OF OUR CITIZENS. THIS EARLY PAIR OF STORE TINS, EACH MEASURING 6.5" TALL, 4.75" WIDE AND 5.25" DEEP OVERALL, FEATURES A HINGED LIFT LID AT THE TOP, WITH A CONVEX FRONT PANEL. LETTERING, QUITE HARD TO DISCERN, READS BEST RIO ON THE TOP OF ONE EXAMPLE, WITH MILWAUKEE , READABLE AT THE BOTTOM, HAVING A PORTRAIT OF A VICTORIAN LADY AT THE CENTER FRONT. THE OTHER EXAMPLE READS EXTRA RIO ON THE CONVEX PANEL, ABOVE AND BELOW A PORTRAIT OF TWO VICTORIAN LADIES, EMBARCED. SOLID CONDITION, HAVING SURVIVED INTACT FOR MANY YEARS, HOWEVER QUITE APPARENT PAINT LOSS AND FADING, BEST NOTED BY EXAMINING THE IMAGES OFFERED. HISTORY OF COFFEE PRODUCTION The history of coffee goes at least as far back as the thirteenth century. The story of Kaldi, the 9th-century Ethiopian goat herder who discovered coffee while searching for his goats, did not appear in writing until 1671 and is probably apocryphal. From Ethiopia, coffee was said to have spread to Egypt and Yemen. The earliest credible evidence of either coffee drinking or knowledge of the coffee tree appears in the middle of the fifteenth century, in the Sufi monasteries of Yemen. By the 16th century, it had reached the rest of the Middle East, Persia, Turkey and northern Africa. Coffee then spread to Balkans, Italy and to the rest of Europe, to Indonesia and then to Americas. The word "coffee" entered English in 1598 via Dutch koffie, borrowed from Turkish kahve, in turn borrowed from Arabic qahwa, a truncation of qahhwat al-bun 'wine of the bean'. A possible origin of the name is the Kingdom of Kaffa in Ethiopia, where the coffee plant originated; its name there is bunna or bunn. There are several legendary accounts of the origin of the drink itself. One account involves the Yemenite Sufi mystic Ghothul Akbar Nooruddin Abu al-Hasan al-Shadhili. When traveling in Ethiopia, the legend goes, he observed birds of unusual vitality, and, upon trying the berries that the birds had been eating, experienced the same vitality. Other accounts attribute the discovery of coffee to Sheik Abou'l Hasan Schadheli's disciple, Omar. According to the ancient chronicle (preserved in the Abd-Al-Kadir man... read more

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