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Original Julius Meinl Coffee Boy, linen backed, lithograph. In 1862 when Julius Meinl I. opened his first grocery store, selling spices and green coffee in the center of Vienna. In 1891 Julius Meinl opened a modern roasting plant on the very site where the retreating Ottoman army had left the green coffee beans over 300 years earlier in Vienna (Austria). At the top is readks F. K. Dr. Barinkay F; Budapest. The only reference where this design may have originated is from the opera The GIPSY BARON and is a play set Set in Hungary in the 18th Century. |
