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Company name: Littauer & Boysen
Address: Skalitzerstr. 104, Berlin SO (found here from 1895 on)
In business from: 1887 - 1936
Printer: yes Publisher: yes
Means of production / workforce:
350 workers in 1896 – Some 500-600 around 1904-1905, 12 flatbed litho presses, additional 45 presses for embossing etc. incl. 9 huge steam-powered models – 400 workers and 17 litho presses between 1913 and c. mid 1920’s. – 270 workers in 1927
Trademark(s):
Company initials L. & B. arranged in triangle design
Specialised in:
One of Berlin’s big deLuxe paper manufacturers with a wide variety of chromolitho (later also halftone) printed, often embossed and/or stamped out articles, much exports. Plus poster / calendar printing, reliefs, greeting cards (fold-out) / subject and greeting cards in ppc size.
Notes: Business set up by Arnold Littauer (1856 - 1908) and Franz Georg Boysen (? - 1917?) who left the company in 1910. Thereafter run by Heinrich Kristeller and Alfred Einzig. The company came in financial difficulties by the early 1930’s. Their Jewish background meant the end and Nazi-controlled institutions / banks took over business. Alfred Einzig committed suicide on Jan. 21, 1934. Heinrich Kristeller was deported to the concentration camp Theresienstadt and died on Dec. 3, 1942.
Illustrations (from top):
L&B ser. 16213, not p/u, message dated 1916
L&B ser. 16565, not p/u
L&B 1a ser. 16564, p/u 1923
L&B ser. 16482, not p/u
L&B no. 16717 - art reproduction, halftone printed. Artist: H. Clementz. Title: Dreaming. Not p/u, mailed in envelope.
L&B ser. 50756 - Woman holding flowers coming down stairs. signed ‘B. Parsons’. Not p/u, post-1905 production. Chromolitho.
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