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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;RinTinTin, post: 364344, member: 4124&quot;]I&#039;ve posted the question on another forum and that showed it was fabricated by:</p><p><br /></p><p>The<b> Franz Scheurle silverware factory</b> was founded in 1903 by its namesake in his hometown of <b>Schwäbisch Gmünd (Germany). </b>In the early years, the product range consisted of a well-arranged selection of small silver items. At the World Exhibition in Paris three years earlier, however, silver canes and umbrella handles had come into fashion. Thanks to high demand, these &#039;en vogue&#039; products became the young company&#039;s best-selling items. The versatile patterns were exported worldwide to countries such as South and Central America, Russia, Scandinavia, Holland, France and Switzerland. However, the company&#039;s strong growth came to a temporary end with the outbreak of war in 1914.</p><p><br /></p><p>After 1918, owing to an innovative extension of the production programme to include silver giftware, such as cigarette cases and powder compacts, they entered into a new, growing market. The economic crisis in 1926 and the related price pressure caused the need to alter existing distribution channels. From then on, the goods were sold on to specialised dealers, in other words selected jewellers at home and abroad. After the company founder Franz Scheurle died unexpectedly in 1929, his son Gerhard Scheurle, took over.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.quinn.de/en/company/chronicle.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.quinn.de/en/company/chronicle.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.quinn.de/en/company/chronicle.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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