PRUSSIA.
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250 Wunder, Louis, Liegnitz —Manufacturer,
Inventor, and Proprietor.
Sample of best tallow liouse-soap.
Best palm-oil house-soap.
Samples of ananas soap.
Pine-apple soap, invented by the exhibitor.
251 Mossner, A., Berlin —Manufacturer.
Purses, cigar-boxes, pocket-books, ladies’ boxes, letter
portfolios, &c.
252 Gerlach, Ciir. Fr., Naumburg on the Saal —
Manufacturer. (Agent, A. Heinzmann, 17 Iron-monger Lane, Cheapside.)
Paper boxes with tin-toys.
253 Rinokelhann, Hirschberg , Silesia —Manufacturer.Stuffed colt, without a seam. Stuffed goat.
254 Dehmel, Henry, Quaritz , Province of Lower
Specimens of soaps of various scents, colours, anddesigns.
255 Sarre, H., Jun., Berlin —Manufacturer.
Green soap, with natural grain.
White grain soap (Elaine soap).
Palm-oil soda soap. Tallow soap.
256 Bahn, A. E., Berlin —Manufacturer,Toys and dolls of various kinds.
257 Wigdor, M., Berlin —Manufacturer,
Patterns of umbrella and parasol sticks in bone and
wood, made on the lathe.
258 Tzitsciiee, J. T., Sorau —Manufacturer.
An assortment of mother-of-pearl, cocoa-nut, shell, andhorn buttons.
259 Zeschke, Louis, Miillrose , near Frankfort
on the Oder —Manufacturer.
Hunting and shooting bags, of deer and calf-skin andmorocco leather. Hare and wildfowl waterproof bags.Large net bags.
260 Krebs, William, Berlin —Manufacturer.
A large assortment of purses, cigar and fusee-boxes,pocket-books for bills of exchange, spectacle-cases, ladies’boxes, card-cases, letter portfolios, and purses.
261 Krumteich, L., Schwiehus —Manufacturer.White wax baskets, with painted and gilt decorations.
Coloured wax octagonal basket. Oval and pyramidaldecorated wax tapers.
262 Motaed, A., & Co., Berlin —Manufacturers.Samples of stearine from tallow prepared by lime, sul-phuric acid, cold and hot pressing. Candles manufac-tured of the same.
Stearine from tallow prepared by sulphuric acid anddistillation, without pressure. Two samples of stearine,from tallow prepared by sulphuric acid, warm and coldpressure. Candles manufactured from the same.
Stearine from palm-oil, prepared by sulphuric acidWithout pressure. Candles manufactured from the same,ail d with an exterior coat of stearine.
Stearine from palm-oil, prepared with sulphuric acidan d distillation, warm pressure. Candles manufacturedt '° m the same.
Palis, A., Berlin —Manufacturer.
Tallow oil-soap and palm-soap. Tallow for candles andor soap. The tallow used in these articles is of PrussianProduction; the palm-oil imported from Liverpool.
264 Schmerbauch, H,, Berlin —Manufacturer.
A variety of cigar-cases, portfolios, embroidered, card-holders, purses, pocket for keys, of straw and leather andsilk in combination.
265 Soehlke, G., Berlin —Manufacturer.
Toys, “ an English regiment on parade in presence oiHer Majesty Queen Victoria and of her royal suite,”formed of painted pewter figures.
Patterns of pewter articles, candlesticks, &c., white andgilded by galvanism.
266 Fechner, E., Gruben —Manufacturer.
Gilt and ornamental borders. Artificial flowers andleaves. Gilt silvered, and coloured paper.
Articles used by bookbinders, leatherworkers, confec-tioners, and perfume-makers.
Articles composed of artificial leaves, flowers, &c.
267 Geiss, M., Berlin —Manufacturer.
Statues cast in zinc:—“ Hebe,” after Canova j “ Eve,”after Bailey; “ Boy with a swan,” after Kalide. Thisfigure is represented in the cut on the following page.“ Two stags,” after Rauch ; “Kneeling Niobe,” after theantique, cast in zinc.
Capitals and columns; tiles—cast in zinc.
[The costliness of bronze renders its employment asa material applicable to the purposes of monumentalstatuary almost exclusively. On this account the ex-tension of sculpture, with the increase in the numberof private collections, has been seriously impeded. Thisimpediment, however, is now being rapidly removed by theadvances that have been made in the art of zinc-casting.The working on this metal as a medium for high arthad at first to make good its progress against manyprejudices, chiefly on the part of artists themselves. Inthis lay the cause which long retarded its employment inconnexion with sculpture, whereas, in domestic architec-ture, its application during the last eighteen years hassuperseded that of almost every other material.
Every doubt has now been dispelled as to the com-parative durability of zinc in the open air, and underthe influence of every variety of weather. Chemistry hasdemonstrated this property of the metal.
Zinc is readily melted, liquifies very completely, and,therefore, is better adapted to cover the smallest lines inthe mould than metals of a harder and more compact,texture. The zinc casting is so pure and so finished onbeing turned out of the mould that the work requires butvery little subsequent chasing. This circumstance, com-bined with the cheapness of the metal itself (the cost of azinc cast being to a cast in bronze only one-sixth or one-eighth), renders zinc an admirable material for statuary.But the unfavourable colour of the zinc proved, for along time, a great obstacle in the way of its application tothese purposes.
This difficulty, however, through the indefatigable exer-tions of the present exhibitor, the founder of this im-portant branch of art in Berlin, has been completelyovercome. He has succeeded in imparting to the zinc ametallic surface, which gives to the cast the perfect aspectof Florentine bronze.
The colossal group of “ The Amazon ” after Kiss ofBerlin, cast in zinc and bronzed by M. Geiss, presents astriking specimen of the perfection to which the latter hasbrought his peculiar invention.
The model of this group, cast in zinc by Geiss ofBerlin, and now deposited in the Great Exhibition , will