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  2. Porcelain manufacturing companies in Europe - Wikipedia

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    The manufacture began to produce porcelain only in 1800 [1] 1770: Rörstrand: Stockholm: Sweden: The company was established in 1726; however, it began to produce porcelain wares only in the 1770s 1771: Limoges porcelain: Limoges: France: Limoges maintains the position it established in the 19th century as the premier manufacturing city of ...

  3. Hutschenreuther family - Wikipedia

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    Jaeger, Werner & Co., Selb (1906) Paul Mueller, Selb (1917) Bauscher brothers, Weiden (1927) Tirschenreuth porcelain factory (1927) Königszelt porcelain factory, Königszelt (today Jaworzyna Śląska), Silesia (1928) In 1969, Porzellanfabriken Lorenz Hutschenreuther AG Selb merged with C. M. Hutschenreuther of Hohenberg.

  4. Chop marks on coins - Wikipedia

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    Chop marks were also used on copper-alloy U.K. Large Pennies, U.S. Large Cents and other copper coins of Europe, Central, South and North America and have Hindu, Chinese, Japanese and Arabic nation's chopmarks as well as English alphabet chop marks from British and American Merchants in Hong Kong from the 1830s to 1960s when world silver coins ...

  5. Porzellanikon - Wikipedia

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    The city of Selb is considered the center of the German porcelain industry. The porcelain manufacturers located in Selb and the surrounding area are market leaders in the field of tableware porcelain. The museum complex of Porzellanikon Selb is composed of three museums. The European Industrial Museum of Porcelain shows the manufacture of ...

  6. Crown gold - Wikipedia

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    Crown gold is a 22 karat (kt) gold alloy used in the crown coin introduced in England in 1526 (by Henry VIII). [1] In this alloy, the proportion of gold is 22 parts out of 24 (91.667% gold). Crown gold is appreciably less prone to wear than the softer 23 kt gold of earlier gold sovereigns — an important point for coins intended for everyday ...

  7. Rosenthal (company) - Wikipedia

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    Rosenthal factory mark around 1900 Share of the Porzellanfabrik Ph. Rosenthal & Co. AG, issued 23 December 1921. Rosenthal-Weihnachtsteller 1921, designed by Jupp Wiertz Fettling cups at the Selb factory in 1956. Rosenthal GmbH is a German manufacturer of porcelain products and other household goods. The original firm was founded in 1879 in ...

  8. Selb - Wikipedia

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    Selb is well known for its porcelain manufacture, and is the home of the Rosenthal factory, founded in 1879 by Philipp Rosenthal as a family business. In the 1960s the town was the location for an unrealized town development plan prepared by Walter Gropius shortly before his death. [3] It includes Spielberg village, which is regarded as Selb ...

  9. Schilling (coin) - Wikipedia

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    Only single silver pennies were struck. In the Empire of Francia from about 800 AD, only pure silver currency was valid, the coin weight of which was based on the pound. Gold solidi (gold schillings) were a rare exception. Thus the solidus was purely a coin of account as well as being a unit of weight and the gold equivalent of 12 silver pfennigs.