Number by catalogue:  Michel: 1900   Scott: 1764   Gibbons: 2008  

Perforation type: 13 ½x14

Subject:

80 cents.

Roasting coffee beans, grinding them in a mortar, brewing coffee.

Additional:

Mortar and pestle are implements used since ancient times to prepare ingredients or substances by crushing and grinding them into a fine paste or powder in the kitchen, laboratory, and pharmacy. The mortar is a bowl, typically made of hard wood, metal, ceramic, or hard stone, such as granite. The pestle is a heavy and blunt club-shaped object. The substance to be ground, which may be wet or dry, is placed in the mortar, where the pestle is pressed and rotated onto it until the desired texture is achieved.

Very often, for ease of manufacture, or for poorer nations - stupas with pestles were made of wood.

The stamp shows another option - with a wooden mortar and metal pestle.

Topics: Mortars and grinding stones