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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 498684, member: 2844&quot;]It was sold by or made for the firm Hüttl, Ban és (and) Minalik, address Vörösmarty Tér 1 in Budapest. Hüttl, Ban and Minalik are all Hungarian surnames, Hüttl is probably of Austrian origin. That&#039;s the Austro-Hungarian empire for you.</p><p><br /></p><p>Vörösmarty Tér is an elegant square in Budapest (Pest side of the Danube), and the location of the famous coffeehouse Gerbeaud, home of the best pastry in the world.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie46" alt=":greedy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie75" alt=":playful:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Maybe Hüttl, Ban és Minalik was also a coffeehouse, restaurant or hotel, or maybe it was a posh porcelain etc shop. I would guess the latter.</p><p><br /></p><p>To get an idea of the setting, Café Gerbeaud:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Voeresmartyter-gerbeaud-budapest.jpg/220px-Voeresmartyter-gerbeaud-budapest.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Caf%C3%A9_Gerbeaud_Budapest.jpg/1920px-Caf%C3%A9_Gerbeaud_Budapest.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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