Art Nouveau Jugendstil B.BOHRMANN FRANKFURT Silver Plate Milk Jug

Description

Antique Art Nouveau Jugendstil B. BOHRMANN FRANKFURT Silver Plate Milk Jug c.1876s.
jug produced by B.Bohrmann company using punching technology and c.1876.
lot of 1pcs.
condition very good
aprox.measure-120mm tall x 100mm wide
weight-190 gms
1INCH=2,54cm
total-weight-33.40 gms
1INCH=25.4mm
purchased from a private collection
Early history of the B.Bohrmann foundry
It is simultaneously easy and difficult to systematize the marks of Bohrmann's silver plate factory, which operated since 1865 (according to the postcard shown below) in Frankfurt on Main in Germany. Easy, because the cutlery marks since at least 1876 and the hollow ware ones since 1887 are bearing the year of production . Difficult, because the information related to Bohrmann and/or his factory is extremely scarce. "Googling" the name Bohrmann is absolutely hopeless as this is the one of wide-spread family names in Germany.
I want to mention the wide use of punching technology in the Bohrmann's production of hollow ware pieces in the mid 1870s. Twenty years later such pieces became very fashionable and were produced in large quantities, e.g. by the Christofle branch Manufacture de L'Alfenide
Main marks used by B.Bohrmann/ B.Bohrmann Nachfolger Company.
First I would like to present the famous graphic mark of B.Bohrmann's foundry, used both on cutlery and hollow ware from the 1860's until c.1887. By the way, it is the only Bohrmann's mark, mentioned by Reinhard Sänger in his book on German cutlery without any explanation/specification . This mark consists of a candle, set in an oval inside a hatched square and two "B" letters around the candle, taken from the initials of B.Bohrmann. The fascinating peculiarity of this mark is the fact that the left "B" letter is a mirror reflection of the right one and vice versa. In my opinion, this mirror reflection accounts for the wide use of punching at early stages of Bohrmann's hollow ware silver plate production. The size of the square box with "BB" mark is about 2.5 mm x 2.5 mm for the standard table cutlery and varies between 4.0 mm x 4.1 mm and 4.3 mm x 4.5 mm for hollow ware pieces.
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