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Swiss Information and Advertisements
Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2022 9:28 am
by dognose
SWISS INFORMATION AND ADVERTISEMENTS
A topic for recording details of the silversmithing and jewellery trade in Switzerland.
For Swiss watchcase marking and related information, see:
Swiss Watch Case Marking Information
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Re: Swiss Information and Advertisements
Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2022 9:37 am
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J. BOSSARD
Hirschenplatz, later, 40, Weggisgasse, Lucerne
J. Bossard - Lucerne - 1894
J. Bossard - Lucerne - 1897
J. Bossard - Lucerne - 1908
Established in 1775.
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Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2022 4:29 am
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BOSSARD & SON
Schwanenplatz, Lucerne
Bossard & Son - Lucerne - 1907
Bossard & Son - Lucerne - 1908
Member
blakstone wrote:
Bossard was an important Swiss firm located in Luzern/Lucerne, founded by Johann Balthasar Bossard (1809-1869) and continued by his son Johann Karl Bossard (1846-1914) and then his grandson Karl Thomas Bossard (1876-1934). They won numerous awards, including a gold medal at the 1889 Exposition Universelle in Paris. The cross flanked by the two stars was the company's mark: the family arms of Bossard of Hochdorf.
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Re: Swiss Information and Advertisements
Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2022 2:43 am
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JOHANN KARL BOSSARD
Lucerne
Obituary
KARL BOSSARD
Karl Bossard lately died at Lucerne, Switzerland, aged 68. He was well known as an artist in goldsmith's work and also as a collector. His acquisitions of art works, some 3,000 in number, were auctioned at Munich some years ago.
Source: American Art News - 20th March 1915
The growing archaeological mood of the second half of the century was most notably exploited by a goldsmith in Lucerne, Johann Karl Bossard, who succeeded to a firm founded in 1775. Born in 1846, Bossard became a familiar contributor to major international exhibitions. At the Paris 1889 Exhibition, where he claimed already to have a diploma from Zurich in 1883 and a Silver Medal from Nuremberg in 1885, he was rewarded for a collection of items based on historic Swiss and German designs mainly of the late Gothic and Renaissance periods, derived, reportedly, from surviving documents and drawings. One dish was made after a design by Holbein in the museum at Basle. Bossard seems to have played an unusually active part in the preparation and execution of these pieces, which were all made in his workshops, even, presumably, to the carving of the coconuts mounted as cups of sixteenth-century design. His productions were widely admired for their authentic appearance, and his exports reversed to an extent the flow of foreign silver into Switzerland. He failed to contribute to the Paris 1900 Exhibition, although his name figures on the supplementary jury. Switzerland was then largely represented by G. Hantz of Geneva, awarded a Gold Medal principally for a buffalo horn mounted in silver and decorated with enamels of alpine subjects.
Source: The History of Silver - Claude Blair - 1987
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Re: Swiss Information and Advertisements
Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2022 4:16 am
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A. GLATOU
Grand Quai 10, Geneva
A. Glatou - Geneva - 1893
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Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2022 3:39 am
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EUGEN KELLER
Bahnhofstrasse 16, Zurich
Eugen Keller - Zurich - 1931
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Re: Swiss Information and Advertisements
Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2022 4:54 am
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JOHANN ULRICH SCHALCH - ULRICH ALBERT SCHALCH
Basel
Member '
blakstone' wrote:
The mark was used by both Johann Ulrich Schalch (1802-1862; Master 1827) and his son & successor Ulrich Albert Schalch (1829-1893), both of Basel, Switzerland. The company was assumed in 1883 by Gottlieb Schär-Steiner (b. Oftringen, Canton Aargau, 1854), but he apparently continued to use Schalch's mark. The assay office letter in the grouse mark (just above its neck) looks like "Z" for Zurich, which could be; Schär-Steiner moved to Zurich in 1893.
See:
https://www.925-1000.com/forum/viewtopi ... 65&p=16326
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Re: Swiss Information and Advertisements
Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2022 4:29 am
by dognose
PAUL ABERLE
Geneva
Member '
Joerg' wrote:
PA makers mark is from Paul Aberle, 1825-1888, in Geneva since 1847.
On the 3eme mark: Geneva was one of the few Swiss towns with a system to control the fineness of silver alloys used. The marking system from 1815 to 1881 was as follows:
1st standard (950) an eagle head
2nd standard (875) a horse head
3rd standard (800) a lions head.
However, also common was just the makers initials with the standard use.
See:
https://www.925-1000.com/forum/viewtopi ... 83#p187283
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Re: Swiss Information and Advertisements
Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2022 5:11 am
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ULRICH SAUTER
Freiestrasse 27, Basel
U. Sauter - Basel - 1929
U. Sauter - Basel - 1934
U. Sauter A.G. - Basel - 1939
U. Sauter - Basel - 1939
U. SAUTER
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Re: Swiss Information and Advertisements
Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2022 5:23 am
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UNIDENTFIED
Siders
Member '
Joerg' wrote:
It is Siders - Sierre in the Canton of Valais, Switzerland. Alain Gruber in "Weltliches Silber I" attributes the maker mark as unidentified, but probably a descent (son) from Paul Domenikus Schell, died 1716. Your spoon looks first half of the 18th century. So this would fit.
See:
https://www.925-1000.com/forum/viewtopi ... 7&p=106761
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Re: Swiss Information and Advertisements
Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2022 11:41 am
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ALBERT BURGER
Kapellgasse 10 and Haldenstrasse 5, Lucerne
Albert Burger - Lucerne - 1891
Albert Burger - Lucerne - 1894
Albert Burger - Lucerne - 1897
Albert Burger - Lucerne - 1908
Established in 1766.
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Re: Swiss Information and Advertisements
Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2022 12:31 pm
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E. KOFMEHL-STEIGER
Bahnhofstrasse 61, Zurich
E. Kofmehl-Steiger - Zurich - 1929
E. Kofmehl-Steiger - Zurich - 1934
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Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2022 12:53 pm
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GUSTAVE HOFER
Lausanne
An example of the work and mark of Gustave Hofer of Lausanne:
G.H.
Member
'blakstone' wrote:
Gustave Hofer, père (1816-1896) of Lausanne, started at Frères Gély, opening his own shop in 1846. His son, Gustave fils (1856-1939) continued the firm until 1918. The "2" in the Lausanne city mark refers to the second silver standard, but it is not known if this was .875 as in Geneva or .800 as in France.
The plain style of the spoons makes them difficult to date, but clearly they are after the firm was founded in 1846 and before the 1882 introuduction of national Swiss hallmarking.
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Re: Swiss Information and Advertisements
Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2022 12:36 pm
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F. HOMBERG
Bern
F. Homberg - Bern - 1906
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Re: Swiss Information and Advertisements
Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2022 3:57 am
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RAOUL STERN
Geneva
Raoul Stern - Geneva - 1919
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Re: Swiss Information and Advertisements
Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2022 8:07 am
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W. DANZ
6, Passage J. Malbuisson, Geneva
W. Danz - Geneva - 1946
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Re: Swiss Information and Advertisements
Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2022 6:01 am
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KELLER-AMBÜHL UND SOHN
Limmatuai 108, Zurich
Keller-Ambühl u. Sohn - Zurich - 1947
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Re: Swiss Information and Advertisements
Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2022 5:18 am
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TÜRLER
Paradeplatz, Zurich and Marktgasse 27, Bern
Türler - Zurich and Bern - 1946
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Re: Swiss Information and Advertisements
Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2022 11:49 am
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WWE. CHRISTENER'S ERBEN
58, Kramgasse, Berne
Wwe. Christener's Erben - Bern - 1930
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Re: Swiss Information and Advertisements
Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2022 5:07 am
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ALB. ERARD
Bienne
Alb. Erard - Bienne - 1946
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