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TOOLS AND VARIOUS DEVICES
WERKZEUGE GERÄTE GEFÄßE

	Basse & Fischer later on/später Jünger & Co - Lüdenscheid i. Westfalen Silver and Silverplate maker / Silber u. Metallwarenfabrik
	Altermann Robert - Görlitz Silver and Silverplate maker / Silber u. Metallwarenfabrik
	Konejung Hermann A.G. - Solingen Silverplate maker / Metallwarenfabrik founded 1873
	Bremer Silberwarenfabrik AG - Sebaldsbrück b. Bremen Silverware maker / Silberwarenfabrik: 1905-1981 Known as Bremer Silberwaren Fabrik Honeke & Co from 1901 to 1904. From 1905 Bremer Silberwaren-Fabrik using the figural "torch" mark. The BSF mark was probably a later choice. The firm closed in 1981. Their dies were purchased by Wilkens & Sohne
	Metallwarenfabrik "Union" - Quedlinburg a. H. successors to F.R. Dennert & Co founded 1879 Silverplate maker / Metallwarenfabrik
	Koch & Bergfeld - Bremen Silverware maker / Silberwarenfabrik (see Koch & Bergfeld HISTORY & MARKS)
	Hintze Otto - Hamburg Silverware maker / Silberwarenfabrik
	Wolter Otto - Schwäbisch Gmünd Silverware maker / Silberwarenfabrik: active 1875-1991
	Vetterlein Fr. Oswald - Döbeln Silverware maker / Vetterleinsche Silberwarenfabrik active 1861-1914

	Peters J. & B. - Kevelaer Silverware maker / Silberwarenfabrik
	Schumacher Johann - Pforzheim Silverware maker / Silberwarenfabrik
	Söhnlein Gebrüder - Hanau Silverware maker / Silberwarenfabrik
	Störger D. - Hanau Silverware maker / Silberwarenfabrik
	Altermann Robert owner/inhaber Reinhard Schlehan later/früher Sachse & Kohl - Görlitz Silverware maker / Silberwarenfabrik
	Bahner Fr. AG - Düsseldorf Bahner Franz - Düsseldorf Silverware maker / Silberwarenfabrik: active 1895-1962. Succeeded by Mansfelder Silber in 1917 *MORE ABOUT FRANZ BAHNER*
	Sachse & Kohl successors to/früer Altermann Robert - Görlitz Silverware maker / Silberwarenfabrik
	Petersfeldt Gebrüder - Berlin Silverware maker / Silberwarenfabrik
	Binder Wilhelm GmbH - Schwäbisch Gmünd established 1869 Silverware maker / Silberwarenfabrik: founded 1869
	Picard & Wielpütz - Solingen Silverware maker / Silberwarenfabrik
	Glükher E. - Munich silverware maker / silberwarenfabrik

	Hüneke Johannes - Döbeln i. Sa. Silverware maker / Silberwarenfabrik
	Well C. - Berlin Silverware maker / Silberwarenfabrik
	Künne Arnold - Altena i. Westfalen Silverware maker / Silberwarenfabrik established 1820 *(OLD ADVERTISEMENT)*
	Hauber Gustav - Schwäbisch Gmünd Silverware maker / Silberwarenfabrik
	Reißmuller & Co - Waldstetten i. Wurttemberg Silver and Silverplate maker / Silber u. Metallwarenfabrik
	Wilkens M.H. & Söhne - Hemerlingen b. Bremen Silverware maker / Silberwarenfabrik founded in 1810 was the leading silver manufacturer in Germany at the end of 19th century. Its designers were Peter Behrens, Albin Muller, and Heinrich Vogeler. H. Bulling, A. Donat, C. Krauss and Karl Muller designed for the firm between 1910 and 1940
	Schlossarek J. - Breslau i. Niederschlesien founded 1882 Silverware maker / Silberwarenfabrik
	Pott C. Hugo - Solingen cutlery maker / besteckfabrik
	Weber Bernhard - Hannover Silverware maker / Silberwarenfabrik
	Frank Rudolf - Vienna, Austria Silverware maker / Silberwarenfabrik active 1882-1914 an Austrian silversmith
	Buchrucker Harald - Ludwigsburg 1931-1985 Born in 1897, founder of Schwäbische Zinn und Silberschmiede Ludwigsburger Metallwerkstatt, manufactorer of 'hand-forged' products made using the silversmith technique, mainly made of tin

	Kallenbach, Meyer & Franke - Luckenwalde Silverplate maker / Metallwarenfabrik
	Berndorfer Metallwarenfabrik A. Krupp AG - Berndorf / Österreich Silverplate maker / Metallwarenfabrik: HISTORY AND FURTHER MARKS
	Richter August F. - Hamburg - Uhlenhorst Silverware maker / Silberwarenfabrik
	A. Wellner Söhne AG.Sächsische Metallwarenfabrik - Aue i. S. OLD ADVERTISEMENTS MORE Founded in by Christian Gottlieb Wellner (1795-1857). He had six children, amongst them two brothers, the elder one, Carl August (1824-1909) and the younger one, Christian Gottlieb junior, who was born in 1831. Both became silver plate manufacturers and settled in Aue, but Carl was much more successful. Carl August continuously struggled for the expansion and technical innovation of his business. The starting point of Wellner's world class machinery was the acquisition of a spoon roller mill and a new spindle press. In 1870 he acquired the building of "alte Langmühle" (old long mill) in Aue. In 1887 the "full-time" tradesman Karl Krause from Leipzig was hired as a sole distributor of the entire new-silver production. Formally a branch of August Wellner's company was founded in Leipzig, which was headed by Krause. In practice, however, this was a "one-sided treaty". Wellner delivered all his products to Krause at fixed prices and Krause sold the products at arbitrary prices. In 1892, Karl August Wellner formally transferred the management of his factory to two sons: Ernst Albin and Richard Paul, and daughter Ida Marie, but still retained his personal guidance until 1895. His successor was Paul Gaedt (husband of Ida Marie), who played a major role in the successful continuation of the factory business after his retirement. In 1913 Gaedt accomplished the conversion of the former private company into a stock corporation Sächsische Metallwarenfabrik August Wellner Söhne Aktiengesellschaft (AG), or Saxon Metal Goods Factory August Wellner and Sons joint-stock company. In 1936 Paul Gaedt transferred the management of the company to the former chairman Francis Cramer. Gaedt retired and soon had to accept that the cutlery factory Wellner partially produced war products and therefore was expropriated by the end of the Second World War. After the end of World War II the Aue factory continued to operate and soon became the largest cutlery producer in GDR, employing over a thousand people; however, the name of the company was changed again in 1958 to VEB Auer Besteck und Silberwarenwerke (ABS) or in English "Aue Cutlery and Silver Items Company". The company held this name until 1992, when it was changed back to Wellner Bestecke und Silberwaren, GmbH, Aue (Wellner Cutlery and Silver Items, Ltd., Aue). After the reunification of Germany (in 1989) the company passed through a number of mergers and bankruptcy. The silver-plating factory in Aue was closed in 2001, but manufacturing of cutlery under the Wellner mark is still continuing in neighbouring Schneeberg. The new name of the company is Wellner/ABS GmbH (Wellner/ABS Ltd.).
	Schleißner J.D. & Söhne - Hanau Silverware maker / Silberwarenfabrik - founded 1816: manufacturer of ancient style "Hanau silver" (see more about HANAU silver )
	Frank A.C. - Hamburg cutlery maker / Besteckfabrik
	Noelle Gebrüder - Lüdenscheid i. Westfalen trademarks used since 1875. The anchor mark obtained US Patent Office No 126.741 on April 5, 1921 Silverware maker / Besteck- u.Menagenfabrik

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