Featured German Lacquerware Box

Interesting box. Pretty sure it is German. Is this a stamp box? Measures 3 5/8" across, stands 1" tall. I assume the bottom name is a company name and the top name is the original owner of the box?

 

It says House (and) Kitchen Magazine (in German). Maybe for recipe cards?

edit: Just read the sizes you mentioned, looks too small for that, perhaps it was a gift with the magazine.

 

Thanks CE BCA . Must have been ordered. Has a name and sort of an address.

 

They are in the 1905 Berlin Public Address book, so looks like a private address rather than a business:

 

Thanks Ce BCA. I wasn't sure about the 1st name. I am surprised this box is in good shape if it is that old.

 

The name and address are of the shop, not of the person who bought it, the last line is what the shop was, a home and kitchen supplies shop.
I guess it is a gift box for soap or something similar.

 

Yes, the "magazin" is the equivalent to a "store house".

The shop is on the ground floor and the owner's could be living above it.

Here is an example ... zoom in on the corner store.
https://www.imago-images.de/st/0062451333

James.

 

"Eine Anweisung des Kaiserlichen Generalpostamtes im Jahre 1873 verband die frühere Nummer mit der Angabe der Himmelsrichtung zu einer neuen Postbezirksbezeichnung: Ausgehend vom Hofpostamt Königstraße Ecke Spandauer Straße wurde damit das damalige Stadtgebiet von Berlin in neun Postbezirke eingeteilt, die nach Himmelsrichtungen (C, O, SO, S, SW, W, NW, N, NO) oder der Richtung der jeweiligen Kopfbahnhöfe benannt wurden."

the rest:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berliner_Postbezirke_zwischen_1862_und_1920

 

Part of the puzzle.
He gets a mention in this 1893 “Advances in Nursing” publication. He made a Steam sterilization apparatus. ...
German...
https://books.google.com/books?id=AnwBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA276&lpg=PA276&dq="j.+fehrmann"+"birkenstrasse+57"&source=bl&ots=Atw4Tj68Lv&sig=ACfU3U0IMsJHlzFnyrZ1Ak8zo4krABNJVw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjz4e6vm8jwAhWBhJ4KHfCPA3AQ6AEwAHoECAIQAw#v=onepage&q="j. fehrmann" "birkenstrasse 57"&f=false

Hygiene of the hospital and sickroom. Steam sterilization apparatus according to Director H. Merke, made by J. Fehrmann, Berlin NW., Birkenstrasse 57. ...
Translated...
https://books.google.com.pa/books?hl=fr&output=html_text&id=AnwBAAAAYAAJ&jtp=276



James.

 

Thanks Any and Roaring20's.

Fid, I have no way to translate that link.

 

This sort of thing was widely reproduced in the seventies.