G or C mark with two Vertical Lines - Farmer Boy with dog

by Dave
(MD)

G or C mark with two Vertical Lines - Farmer Boy with dog:- Inherited from parents. Markings are too light to photograph with a point and shoot, but a rendition is attached. I'd love to know origin, age, what it really is (maybe a soldier not a farmer), and it's possible value.

Dave

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G or C mark with two Vertical Lines - Farmer Boy with dog

Hi Dave

Many thanks for submitting, and hope you are finding the site useful. Your mark illustration looks like the 'G' for Gräfenthal, a town in Thuringia, East Germany. The two down-lines are arrows or some-such rather than an 'H'.

The company is 'Porzellanfabrik Unger, Schneider & Cie' founded 1859. It went through various changes of ownership.

In 1885 it became owned in part by Hermann Hutschenreuther, in 1886 it became the Carl Schneiders Erben factory.

In the 20th Century it became nationalized behind the iron curtain.

In 1951 it was merged with the Carl Scheidig factory to form Porzellanfiguren Gräfenthal. Porzellanfiguren Gräfenthal was dissolved in 1972 and Carl Schneiders Erben closed. Carl Scheidig Erben, however continued with the Gräfenthal name and still trades today.

The blue mark shown has been around from 1889 to 1972, so it is very hard to date.

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