1700's Spanish (Catalan) chocolate grinder - makes my 100 year-old equipment seem new.

The sculpture of the "Indian" on the grinder is very similar to one that appears below. It's a reproduction of a 1600's plate with coffee, tea and chocolate represented by a person from their source area. While it's well known that "eating" or solid chocolate is a recent invention, it's interesting to see something from a time when chocolate was only a beverage, just like coffee and tea. Also interesting is neither the grinder nor the plate depict the Aztec or Mayan that is commonly used these days associated with cacao and chocolate.

Reproduction of plate from Phillipe DuFour's 1688 "Treatise on Coffee, Tea and Chocolate". Used in both "Chocolate and Cocoa" 1891 by Walter Baker and Company (Baker's Chocolate) and "Cocoa, All About It" 1892 by Historicus (Cadbury).