BBC - Antiques - Expert tips - 20th century classics

BBC - Antiques - Expert tips - 20th century classics ()

  „Plates originally cost 6d. Today you can still pick them for around £10, although rarer pieces such as coffee pots are worth considerably more.“

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BBC - Antiques - Collectors guides - Teapots, coffee pots and chocolate pots BBC - Antiques - Collectors guides - Teapots, coffee pots and chocolate pots

  „The shapes of tea and coffee pots can help with dating them, but because many 18th-century styles were repeated in the 19th and 20th centuries you need to check the marks on the base to tell whether the piece is a later reproduction. There is nothing wrong with buying, say, a 19th-century coffee pot in an 18th-century style, provided the marks are correct for the date it was made and the pot is priced as a reproduction.“

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BBC - h2g2 - Ways to Make Good Coffee BBC - h2g2 - Ways to Make Good Coffee

  „The brewed coffee is collected in the top half of the pot. When all the water is gone from the lower half, the gurgling dies away and the coffee is ready.The espresso coffee made in these stove-top pots can be bitter, because the water is boiling when it passes through the grounds.Stove-top espresso makers are available in a few different sizes. They should always be used to make a full pot as they do not operate well when half full. After making a pot, you must wait a few minutes for the pot to cool down before you can use it again, so they are not really suitable for making large amounts of espresso.“

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BBC NEWS | Politics | Queen receives gift from Cabinet BBC NEWS | Politics | Queen receives gift from Cabinet

  „Lord Callaghan told the programme: "He said, 'Do you know, you'll hardly believe this, but there is only one coffee pot at Windsor that will serve twelve cups of coffee, and so when we go to Balmoral we have to wrap it up in a bit of newspaper and take it with us. "So Audrey, my wife, bought a very nice silver coffee pot that served twelve cups of coffee." The Queen asked all the Cabinet to the palace for the presentation of the gift and later had their names engraved on the coffee pot.“

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BBC News | SCI/TECH | Cult coffee machine sold BBC News | SCI/TECH | Cult coffee machine sold

  „The researchers decided to attach a camera to it and broadcast its pictures on the net, so that anyone looking at the images would know whether making the trip to the pot was worthwhile. Sold: The final webcam image The percolator soon acquired cult status, with hundreds of thousands of people logging on to watch it on one of the first ever web-cam broadcasts. The Cambridge computer department decided to sell the broken old pot because it is moving to new labs and the students want a new coffee-maker. "Time moves on and we want to buy a shiny new espresso machine," the students wrote in their offering on auction site eBay.“

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