Vintage German Porzellan Gotha Pfeffer Cats Kittens Porcelain Figurine

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Vintage German Porzellan Gotha Pfeffer Cats Kittens Porcelain Figurine:
$29.99

Measures (inches): 2 7/8\" long x 2 1/2\" wide x 3 1/8\" tall

Porzellan- und Fayencefabrik F. Pfeffer (1882 until 1934)

The factory formerly belonged to Heinrich Graeser. Not being able to reach his private goals in time, Graeser sold the whole factory to Fritz Pfeffer (born 1857) in 1882, who used the porcelain and faience factory to produce dolls and dolls\' heads with great success. Pfeffer even owned a design patent filed in 1890: the \'Doll Head Design Patent 9675\', which included an improvement for doll-heads provided with movable eyeballs and a movable lower lip.

In 1900 Pfeffer started to produce animal figures in the style of the Copenhagen works, which was quite a success. During 1921 the German Mint was not able to produce enough money because of the very high inflation rates and so local officials were allowed to make their own money which was called ⇒Notgeld. The Pfeffer factory was one of the few businesses allowed to produce money in the form of coins for that cause and used a mixture containing mainly quartz, kaolin and feldspar, resulting in the coins to be known just as \'quartz coins\' in the area. At the age of 65 Fritz Pfeffer died in 1922. The business continued however, now run by his son Max Pfeffer who strictly followed the ideals of his father. For the next few years, the factory did very well and from 1925 onwards, the artist Arnold Viegelmann (born in München) was the main designer and in 1930 the factory employed around 120 people.

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