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Blanke

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s Coffee

The top knife advertises

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Blanke

‘

s Coffee -Faust Blend & Grant Cabin Tea.

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The

bottom one reads

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Blanke

‘

s Coffee - Faust Blend & Exposition Brand.

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Both knives are from the C. F. Blanke Tea & Coffee

Co. of St. Louis. The blades are marked C. F. BLANKE

TEA & COFFEE CO., GERMANY. Both have

stanhopes with the enameled example having a

picture of a man on horseback.

At right is a knife sharpening stone advertising the

Blanke Co. Blanke was the coffee of the 1904 World

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s

Fair - thus the

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Exposition Brand.

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Faust was a well known name in St. Louis, not only

for the coffee but for the Faust brand beer brewed by

Anheuser-Busch. Tony Faust was the owner of the St.

Louis Oyster House and Restaurant.