Grind Collection

Persian women using a large grindstone, Iran Date: circa 1900s

Advert for Wm. Corns & Son, combination Coffee Mill 1888
Combination mill for coffee and spices. Date: 1888

Mavis Grind, Shetland Islands - both the North Sea and the Atlantic Ocean are visible in one hot! Date: circa 1910s

Cleobury Mortimer corn mill
The miller carries a sack of corn for grinding at Cleobury Mortimer mill, Shropshire England. First published The Daily Telgraph Date: 1986

Bird shaped mortar. Zoolith used to grind hallucinogens
Bird shaped mortar. Zoolith used to grind hallucinogenic substances. It was collected in 1777 by Captain Geronimo Verde on Santa Catarina Island (Brazil). Sambaqui culture (3000 BC-500 AD). Stone

Spain, Castile-La Mancha, Toledo province. Consuegra. View of the Castle (stronghold of Knights of San Juan) and a windmill. Date: 2011

Milling grain, Cairo, Egypt, c. 1880 s
Milling grain, Cairo, Egypt, c.1880 s

Bearded Egyptian man sharpening knives on grind stone
19th century vintage photograph: Bearded Egyptian man sharpening knives on a grind stone

Village of El Querebya under the Funj Kingdom
Village of El Querebya (El Querebyn) under the Funj Kingdom of Sennar, Sudan. In the village of round huts on the Blue Nile

Hardy Patent Pick Co. bone grinder 1890s
The Devil, Disintegrator, bone grinder and mixer. This machine will grind to powder, granulate or shed any material, animal and vegetable, wet or dry at one operation. Date: 1890s

Advert for W. & T Avery, Duplex Coffee Mill. 1888
Patent Duplex Coffee Mill grind twice as fast. Date: 1888

KNIFE GRINDER / WHEATLEY
Knives, scissors and razors to grind?; a knife grinder operating in a London street. Date: 1795

Craftsman puts finishing touches to replica suit of armour
Sparks fly as a skilled craftsman puts the finishing touches to a replica suit of armour with conquistador-style morion in his workshop in Birmingham, England Date: 1992

Cleobury Mortimer mill wheels
The miller grinds corn on original mill wheels at the Cleobury Mortimer mill, Shropshire England. First published The Times Date: 1986

Popular Fiction Illustrated - The Eternal City by Hall Caine. Businessmen head on their regular train commute from the suburbs (or beyond) into London eyes-front, expressions-fixed

Girls school at Fianarantsoa, Madagascar
A group of girls with their maid washing and grinding harvest at the girls school at Fianarantsoa (meaning good education ), Madagascar. Date: circa 1907

Two boys sharpening knives - Medenine, Tunisia, North Africa Date: circa 1910s

Shea butter production - Senegal
Shea butter preparation, baking shea tree nuts - pounding and grinding, Senegal, West Africa. The French name karite (as detailed on this card) comes from ghariti

Scottish Hand Mill
Two women use a handmill to grind flour in a Scottish cabin

Grinding wheat - Deir Mar Yaqoub Monastery, Qara, Syria
Two seated Women grind wheat using a rotary hand quern at Deir Mar Yaqoub, a monastery dedicated to Saint Jacob near Qara, Syria. Date: circa 1910s

People operating a hand mill. 17th century

Nomadic women mince the grain, Ghardaia
Nomadic women sit in their campsite, with their children, grinding up the grain. Ghardaia, Algeria Date: circa 1910s

Egyptian Art. Baking, brewing and butchery scene. Tomb of Wa
Egyptian Art. Baking, brewing and butchery scene. From the tomb of Wadjet-hotep at Sedment. Wood. 7th-11th Dynasty. c. 2150-2050 B.C. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Copenhagen. Denmark

Snap Playing Card - Scissors to Grind. circa 1900s

Street tinker
Knives to grind. Street trader. From Old London Cries (1885) Date: 1885

Street cutler
Knives and scissors to grind. Street cutler. From Old London Cries (1885) Date: 1885

Crofters grinding corn, Isle of Skye, Scotland. Date: late 19th century

Trimmers Shop, Iron and Steel Foundry, Woolwich Arsenal
View of the trimmers shop in the iron and steel foundry, Woolwich Arsenal, south east London, for the trimming and grinding of shells of all sizes. Date: circa 1905

Japan - Tea Industry - Tea Grinding. Date: circa 1908

China - Mule-powered Rotary grain mill - Village Community
China - Mule-powered Rotary grain mill - Rural village Community Date: circa 1910s

Japan - Women preparing food including chopping a daikon
Japan - Women preparing food including a Geisha girl preparing (cutting) daikon (white radish), possibly for takuan or bettarazuke dishes and another woman grinding foodstuffs using a pestle

Rotary hand quern for grinding corn - Palestine, Middle East. Date: circa 1920s

Mapuche Girl grinding toasted wheat - Southern Chile
Mapuche Girl grinding toasted wheat on a quern stone - Southern Chile. Date: circa 1910s

Egyptian street knife grinder - Port Said. A young boy is fascinated and has popped his head out of a small window to watch the grinder grinding away. Date: circa 1902

Pounding rice - Malabar region of Southern India
Sifting, sorting and pounding rice with a large pestle and mortar - Malabar region of southern India (lying between the Western Ghats and the Arabian Sea). Date: circa 1910s

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India - Ghati Women Grinding Corn Date: circa 1907

Israel - Women grind corn with a handmill
Women working with a rotary quernstone handmill to grind corn - Israel - at thsi stage under Ottoman control. Date: circa 1908

Knives and Scissors to Grind Oh
Old Street Cries -- Knives and Scissors to Grind Oh!! 20th century

Parisian knife-grinder

Grinding Corn Ethiopia
An Ethiopian woman uses a saddle quern to grind corn

Arabs Grinding Corn 1901
Two Palestinian women in Jerusalem grind corn using a hand mill

Scissors to Grind
Mr J Lee pushes his barrow through the London streets, offering to sharpen your scissors and all kinds of cutlery

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