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SOLD - Faema Mercurio Vintage Lever

Up for sale is my Faema Mercurio Vintage lever. Was originally imported from Europe and restored by me over the ditch in NZ, now we're both living here in Sydney. Need to sell to make room and get set up here. It was restored 2 years ago and has seen light occasional home use since then as I've had other vintage levers to play with. Plumb in and out only, although I just usually use a small container underneath for the drip tray.
Comes with original Faema portafilter (re-chromed) and a standard black new E61 p/f which also fits. New piston seals and a fine-tune this week to get it ready for sale.
Like most machines you'll find of this vintage, there were missing or non-original parts. Drip tray and plexi were bought from European collectors and are very good replicas. It does have the valve on top of the saturated group, which many of these are missing.
I have the cardboard pack n send box I bought it over here in for transport. Freight within Aussie will be approx. $100 , happy to help out local buyers in the future ig they are Sydney based
Easy to find restoration details and even a youtube video online of this machine

$6250 AU$

Comments

  • Very tempting! If I wasnt having a gap year next year I would probably not be able to resist, someone will pick up a lovely piece of coffee history.
  • Very nice machine, and a nice restoration!
  • Wonderful!  Just wonderful. Good luck with the sale!
  • Thanks for the kind words everyone. I'm sure i'll end up regretting selling it, especially as they are so hard to find nowadays, especially at a decent price after the collectors snap them all up . Just need the money for other projects at the moment Stuart (Borat)  good to hear from you, hopefully you'll be enjoying the Urania again soon after you get that gasket problem sorted Mike
  • Hi Mike, yes long time no see...  Good luck with the sale (and the move). The Urania is almost done now, I've just got to finish off a few more valve gaskets and the job's all done. The Caravel has been doing espresso duty while the other one is offline.  Have to say it does a great job for such a tiny little package.  Italian designers in the 60's sure knew how to build a decent coffee machine.
  • The Mercurio has been sold , thanks
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