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I have one as well and call it the Cleopatra perk.  The gold wash is apparently real gold and I have to agree with Hans I think the tray isn't original to the perk. 
 
Petek, do you have any pictures of your percolator? I also agree that the tray doesn't seem to go with it. I'm not even going to use it so I didn't know why they would have included it in the sale.
 
I think it's pretty neat that when the perking cycle is complete the little switch at the side flips up. I also noticed that the strength selector moved over to the left on its own!
 
A close up

Here's a close up of the controls on my late grandmother's Dormeyer Coffee-Well.  On this model the strength selector doesn't move when it's done perking.  It's a very audible sound when it flips up from brew to warm.

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<span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #008000;">It's always so cool to find something that you really like and doesn't set you back and arm and a leg. That classy percolator is a good reason to bring back the tradition of after-dinner coffee.</span>

 

<span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #008000;">In the excellent 1950 film "Harriet Craig" Joan Crawford reads the riot act to housekeeper Mrs. Harold... "Don't you ever intend to serve the coffee? My guests are still waiting!"</span>

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Is the coffee ready yet?

<span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #008000;">Not to sidetrack this topic from the Dormeyer Golden Goddess, even though Harriet's friends, cousin and husband all desert her at the end of the film, I always thought she ended up the winner. You can always find another husband like Walter, but where are you going to find another property like that house?</span>

 

<span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">"Harriet Craig" is the film daughter Christina Crawford said her mother did absolutely no acting in, "that was all her."</span>

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Do you think people actually used these coffee makers daily?  It just seems too fancy for everyday. More like something you'd have on the buffet or something along with a fancy tea serving.   
 
If our house was any indication

Good stuff was only for when "company" came over. That or if Mom had "the girls" in for this or that event.

Remember in good society coffee (or tea for that matter) was never served at the dinner table. But always in the living/drawing room, parlor or wherever guests withdrew to after the meal.

Of course if one had guests for "tea", luncheon, cards or whatever things pretty much were the same; you got out the "good stuff".

Have to also remember back in the glory days guests rarely saw inside housewife's kitchen. That was the realm of servants. If you didn't have any perhaps a trusted friend or two offered to "help" clear things away and or bring out desert/coffee.

If you watch lots of Bewitched (and who doesn't?) you notice Sam always serves coffee in her living room, never at the dining table. Only exception to this as was in real life was *very* informal gatherings (several seasons in Louise Tate becomes more like Sam's close friend than the wife of her husband's boss), and she has coffee at the dining table on a few occasions IIRC. But never in the kitchen.

My Mom like her neighbors had a morning "kaffee klatch" in kitchen when one of the girls dropped in during "housecleaning hours". However if it was serious company she got changed and served in the dining or living room. A visit from grandmother (Mom's MIL) usually warranted the latter. *LOL*
 

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