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In 2006 and 2007, respectively, the Könitz Group acquired two other German companies, Waechtersbach Ceramics (est. 1832) [10] and Weimar Porzellan (est. 1790). [11] Waechtersbach USA is the primary distributor of Könitz products in the United States & Canada. The subsidiary was founded in 1976, purchased by Konitz Porzellan in 2009.
The small chopped or marks found on items of Chinese Export Silver are not hallmarks. Hallmarks are small markings stamped on the object that indicates that an official (usually a local assayer) in a particular country guarantees that the item is made from a certain percentage of silver. There is actually no assay system in Chinese China.
The room for arbitrage profit was further enlarged because of the silver content difference between silver ingots from Ming and Qing China and New World silver. [12] At the same time, China also made significant arbitrage earnings in the markets for silks, ceramics, and other non-silver goods, which formed a multiple arbitrage system. [11]
The factory had its origins in an official request made 8 September 1760 by the porcelain maker Georg Heinrich Macheleid (1723 -1801). Macheleid had long worked in the glass manufactory at Glücksthal and had gained the arcana of porcelain-making by his own researches, apparently independent of Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus and Johann Friedrich Böttger, the ceramists at Meissen.
Year Description Site / location Remark 1710: Meissen porcelain: Meissen, Saxonia: 1st porcelain manufacturing company in Europe 1746: Höchst Porzellanmanufaktur
Iron-red orb and KPM marks, underglaze-blue sceptre and eagle and circle marks. When Frederick the Great took over the manufactory from the Berlin merchant Johann Ernst Gotzkowsky on 19 September 1763, he also provided the brand's emblem: the cobalt blue sceptre from the electoral coat-of-arms of Brandenburg. The porcelain is marked after the ...
A small silver amulet discovered by archaeologists in Germany could transform our understanding of how Christianity spread under the Roman Empire, experts have said.
FAG (Fischers Aktien-Gesellschaft) metal tinThe label was introduced in Britain by the Merchandise Marks Act 1887 (50 & 51 Vict. c. 28), [1] to mark foreign produce more obviously, as foreign manufactures had been falsely marking inferior goods with the marks of renowned British manufacturing companies and importing them into the United Kingdom.