Espresso Coffee Cups

Up until 1992 all espresso coffee cups could only purchased in whether white or with a company logo upon them. It was then the decision of Illy Caffe that they would couple art with espresso and they commissioned Matteo Thun to help form their first espresso cup. The form is considered by the owner of Illy Caffe (Francesco Illy) to be the exquisite cup even though its form is very simple. Now with many coffee connoisseurs colse to the world, these types of cups have come to be collector's items.

In fact for many when it comes to collecting espresso coffee cups it is practically akin to them collecting some forms of artwork. The cups designed today each have their own artist who will furnish his/her own single form and will include some of their own personal style within them. Today there are many up and arrival artists who have now designed cup collections as a way of getting themselves known and development their artwork available to the general public.

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Today all clubs that furnish such cups will have a single numbering system in place which allows them to limit the whole that are produced. Plus you will also find that they limit the time in which these cups will be available before they remove them from the shelves and bring in a fully new design. You will find that with each of the Illy assembler cups and their with saucers has been signed and numbered on the base.

Plus inside the cup itself you will see it says "Illy Collection". however those cups and saucers which are used in restaurants and are therefore part of a bar set will only say "Illy Espresso" on them and will neither have a whole of being signed. Other cups that are now being produced are those by FrancisFrancis! and Saeco. The FrancisFrancis! collections come with both a whole and a signature on them just like the Illy collections, whilst the Saeco espresso coffee cups will only signed on the base.

Each set of cups when purchased comes in a display box and in some cases you may find that the manufacturers have also included coffee with them as well.

Today because espresso coffee cups have come to be highly popular, getting hold of the older versions can be very difficult and also be very expensive. positively as soon as any series of cups is no longer available to be brought through a sell outlet then the only way to acquire this through buying them from another collector. One set of Trazzine espresso coffee cups which a person could have purchased in 1994 for 9 is now up for sale by a assembler for 0. So positively as you can see these cups are not just for drinking your espressos.

Espresso Coffee Cups