Trying to find history on a coffee or tea pot made in italy, it says vesuviana its old,metal?

Question

it looks like something maybe was a miltary issue,

Answer 1

http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-...

has someone talking about their Vesuviana Espresso Coffee machine in Chrome /alloy.  in fact, several people have written in with info about these on that page.

They list their email addresses; maybe they can give you more info.

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