HALLMARKS OF GERMAN SILVER
MARKS AND HALLMARKS OF GERMANY
- 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY (POST 1888) -

Hermann Behrnd - Gruner Str. 27, Dresden A.9
Silverwares factories, numb. 866; founded 1881
ref: Sänger/Das deutsche Silber-Besteck Marke Seite 33, 271

Carl Schnauffer, Victoriastr. 23/I, Dresden-A.
ref. Adress- und Handbuch für das deutsche Goldschmiedegewerbe, Hrsg.: Redaktion der Deutschen Goldschmiede-Zeitung. Verlag von Wilhelm Diebener, Leipzig 1903, p. 49 - Gold- and Silverwares Wholesalers, numb. 1301; p. 97 - Wholesalers of precious stones, stones and pearls, numb. 3484; advert. p. 40a:
Wholesaler of Jewellery and Goldwares. Owner: Martha (widow) Schnauffer, Eugen Schnauffer, Friedrich Schnauffer. Wholesaler of all kind of jewellery, with own wholesale of precious stones, stones and pearls. They were wholesaler in Germany, and Exporter

Koch & Bergfeld - Bremen, Kirchweg 200
Founded in Bremen in 1829 by Gottfried Koch and Ludwig Bergfeld (born in Hannover). Executed 1900-10 designs by Hugo Leven, Albin Muller and Henry van de Velde and in the twenties and thirties by Gustav Elsass and Bernhard Hotger
The firm is still active with a wide production of flatware and holloware
ref: Neuwirth/Markenlexikon für Edle und Unedle Metalle No.286
Art Nouveau and Art deco Silver - by Annelies Krekle-Aalberse, p. 256

"JÄHNE" is a retailer mark. The "16737" is a Koch & Bergfeld's internal individual order number. They start around 1874 with numb. 1, until 1932 with numb. 82056. Source: Silber aus Bremen, Hrsg. C.-W. Schümann, Wienand Verlag, Köln 1979, 2nd 1990, p. 112. ISBN 3-87909-096-3

H&Co mark belongs to the wholesaler department of Henniger & Co., in Berlin S.W.68, Alte Jacob-Str. 106 [factory and administration]. They had shops in Berlin, Breslau, Dresden-A., Hamburg, Leipzig, Magdeburg, München. Gebrüder Henniger developed the so baptized "Neusilber" (New Silver or Nickel Silver), an alloy without any contents of Silver, which should have, be polished, the same optical appeal as a polished item made from 12 Lot (750/1000) Silver alloy. And they were from about 1842 on in Germany also the first, who have used the Electro Galvanic Plating Process.

The "Key" mark for hollowware was in use from 1942.
Number 8157, is the internal individual order number of Koch & Bergfeld. Numbering started in 1942 with number 1000, until 1978 with number 13158. Source: Silber aus Bremen«, Hrsg. C.-W. Schümann, Wienand Verlag, Köln 1979, 2nd 1990, p. 112. ISBN 3-87909-096

KOCH & BERGFELD HISTORY & MARKS

Robbe & Berking - Flensburg, 1874 - Present
The business was founded by Nicolaus Christoph Robbe (1843-1916) who in 1874 opened a silver workshop in Angelburger Street, Flengsburg (Schleswig-Holstein, Germany). The business prospered and in 1897 Robbe opened a fifty-percent partnership with his son-in-law Robert Berking (1872-1908). Berking was a master silversmith from Braunschweig with entrepreneurial talent and technical and artistic mastery. He developed the first cutlery designs of the company, expanded the trading area and built new company's headquarters in Sophienstrasse, modernizing production and adopting updated tools and machinery.

ROBBE & BERKING: HISTORY, MARKS, FLATWARE PATTERNS

Lazarus Posen Witwe (Lazarus Posen's widow)
Berlin & Frankfurt/Main 20th century
ref: Bröhan/Metallkunst der Moderne vol. VI Marke Seite 108, No.87, Scheffler Goldschmiede Hessens No.631
The firm was founded in Frankfurt on the Main in 1869 by Brendina Wetzlar, the widow of Lazarus Jacob Posen, a silversmith and retailer of Polish descent. Under the widow Posen's stewardship, the firm became the largest supplier of Judaica in the late 19th century. Her son Jacob L. Posen joined the firm by 1880, and by 1900, the company's large staff of chasers and engravers were producing some of the finest silver in the country. They received a royal warrant in 1903. In the 20th century the firm was under the direction of Brendina's grandsons Jakob, Hermann and Moritz Posen. In 1938 the company was forcefully closed and looted on Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass - Novemberpogrome: courtesy information Jacob Frank)

Gustav Haegermann - Burgdorf/Hannover c. 1900
ref: Deutsches Goldschmiede-Jahrbuch 1913 No.204 Scheffler/Goldschmiede Niedersachsens I page 228

C.Haub (son) - Hanau - end of 19th century
ref: Neuwirth/Edle und Unedle Metalle page 48

J.Knewitz - Mainz
Founded 1834. Former Hassen-Darmstadt Court Jeweler

H. Meyen & Co - Berlin
mid 19th c. /mid 20th c.