Royal Copenhagen Aluminia Faience Marks and Dating codes

Aluminia dating code from 1935 - 1969

Used on items with decoration under the glaze

The Aluminia Faience factory date its history to the year 1862 founded by August Schiøttt (1834 - 1863). In 1868 Philip Schou took over the factory and moved the production to Frederiksberg. In 1882 he bought the Royal Copenhagen Porcelain Manufactory and the two companies merged to one. The production of faience lived its own quite life in the shadow of the blooming interest for industrial production of porcelain at Royal Copenhagen. But the period from 1901 - 1928 became a new period of success under the artistic input from  Chr. Joachim (1870-1943) and Harald Slott-Møller (1864-1937). They crated the important works of Danish Skonvirke in the coloristic Art faience of Aluminia. Later Nils Thorsson took the manufactory into the new and final era in the period 1928-1969.

	Porcelænsmærker på Bing & Grøndahl figurer, spisestel og samlerartikler fra 1853 to 2003 B&G		Stempler og mærker fra Den Kongelige Porcelænsfabrik	Kunstner-signaturer fra Aluminia - Kbh.'s Fajancefabrik
	Bing and Grondahl Backstamps-hallmarks or factory marks 1853 to 2003.		Dating Royal Copenhagen - marking system for figurines and collectibles	Dating marks, artist signatures and monograms from Royal Copenhagen Faience - Aluminia

A. Impressed marks

1. August Schiøtts own mark. AS. The very early years around 1863		2. AS Aluminia. The factory mark from 1864 - 1920. Different sizes
3. Aluminia. Factory  mark from 1870 - 1920 Dating system with numbers around the two marks 2. and 3.		KF. Effective in 1920 the company changed its name to Københavns Fajancefabrik (The faience manufactory of Copenhagen)
4. KF in oval, used 1920 - 1923 in normal faience mass.		5. KF in oblong, used 1920-1923 in the best mass.
6. Triangular stamp with the letter "T" (for Tranquebar) used 1920 - 1958 in Tranquebar faience. Trankebar		7. KF in a circle, used 1923 -24 in normal faience quality
8. KF in a square, used 1923 - 1924 in the best quality faience mass and in Art faience, also 1925 - 1926 in Tranquebar faience (together with # 6)		9. KF in a square without corners, used for normal quality faience
10.K in a square, used 1924 -1926 in best quality and art faience

B. Printed marks

Used as copperplate transfer print and a rubber stamp

11. Aluminia Kjøbenhavn. Copperplate blue/Black factory mark used on Danzigplate with the Bouquet 1866-1869		12. Aluminia Kjøbenhavn. Copperplate grey/blue factory mark used for Albert plates "Kronprinds" 1868-1901	Aluminia Kjøbenhavn
13. Aluminia. Copperplate grey/blue factory mark used on the Albert pattern with Achilles decoration 1882 -1892		14. Aluminia 1888. Copperplate factory mark used 1888 on an exhibition item
15. 1922 the rubber stamp "Københavns Fajance Fabrik Danmark" (The Faience manufactory of Copenhagen: It is seen in different sizes. As a rule it is black but is also found as blue or brown. Used until 1933		16. In 1933 they returned to the Aluminia mark. Used as a rubber stamp green "A with the three wavy lines and nothing else
17. In 1934 DENMARK was added to the Aluminia mark, Green but also found in black and brown. Please see the dating code from 1935 - 1969 above		18. In 1969 the Aluminia name was changed to Royal Copenhagen Denmark with the three wavy lines and the word Fajance (Faience). The dating mark on the stamps after 1969 follows the same as other Royal Copenhagen items
19. Copperplate Lilla decoration marking used at the Alexandra pattern 1867-1917		20. Copperplate decoration markings used 1876-1880 on the Royal/plain dinnerware pattern Fortuna. Inspired by the English Order of  the Garter
21. Copperplate brown decoration markings used for the Firenze decoration 1878-1982		22. Copperplate green decoration mark for the Geranium pattern 1880-1924
23. Ceramia. Copperplated bluish gray decoration mark for Ceramia 1882 - 1890 Inspired by the English Order of  the Garter		24. Copperplated green decoration markings for Here 1882-1924
25. Copperplate decoration markings for the water pattern with decorations Funen and Jutlan (Fyn & Jylland)		26. Siam. Copper plated green mark for the decoration SIam 1901 -1908
27. Copenhagen Denmark. The first decoration mark with green rubberstamp came in 1906 - was first intended for the art faience, which then was being exported. From 1913 it was also used at air painted faience		28.Printed, green rubberstamped decoration mark from 1919: Eremitage Köbenhavn: In addition a handpainted number from the special numbering system of the Eremitage series
29. Marselis from 1952 by Thorsson without year marking. Variable sizes		30. Veronica from 1956 by Thorkild Olsen
31. Columbine from 1957 by Nils Torsson. The year marking in the example to the right show 1958 according to the list above		Child welfare Days figurines designed by Herluf Jensenius and  Hans Henrik Hansen. 1941-1965

Hand painted marks

32. Hand painted marking started on colored art faience in 1901-1902. The figure above shows the development of the mark from 1901 - 1906. It started with the Beehive mark and a number. The Beehive mark was the A from Aluminia and the thee wavy lines from  Royal Copenhagen. This hand painted A was used in the period 1901 - 1933.  A decoration number was added starting with # 1. The artist signature was given with Roman numerals first, later with a painter number in Arabic numbers and finally the monogram in letters. In 1903 a model or form number was in use - so you had the decoration # over the line and the form # under the line. In 1906 Copenhagen Denmark was added because of international export.
The # marking of the early art faience 1903-1930. The # above the line shows the # of decoration. The # below the line tells the form and year
100-150 = 1903 401-500 = 1906 601-650 = 1909 731-760 = 1912 861-920 = 1915 1021-1100 = 1918 151-250 = 1904 501-550 = 1907 651-690 = 1910 761-800 = 1913 921-960 = 1916 1101-1200 = 1919 251-400 = 1905 551-600 = 1908 691-730 = 1911 801-860 = 1914 961-1020 = 1917 1200-1500 = 1920-1930
		Joakim Petersen - Later Chr. Joakim

Air painted Faience

33. A with three vawy line.. From 1913 a green stamped beehive Aluminia mark was used for air painted faience. The Irma vase and early jam boxes		34. David Metz Kjöbenhavn. A tea box from the David Metz company had its own mark
35. From 1915 Tidemands Jam boxes got a special mark used until 1938 in different variations		36. A Chocolate cup from Toms from 1928 had its own mark Tom's Chocolate

Porcelain markings

37. Jernporcelain Københavns Porcelains Fabrik Danmark. Used 1925-.1928 on iron porcelain		38. Københavns Porcelains Fabrik Danmark. Used 1927-1928 on soft porcelain
39. Blue circle with three wavy lines. Used 1928-1956 on iron porcelain and soft porcelain in different sizes. The mark on the left is on a crackle dog figurine.		40. København Danmark. Used together with # 39 on soft porcelain

Stoneware and oven proof markings

41. The jungle series made of firebrick came in in  1931 and was marked with the three wavy lines as Royal Copenhagen stoneware. The decoration numbering from the Jungle stoneware  5001-5038. The form numbers from 5001 - 5033. The vase on the right side has decoration # 5036 and form # 5031,   Other decoration of turquoise had the decoration numbers from #6000 - #6016
42. Ovenproof ceramic 1957 - 1969 like Pyrolin, Hotelin and Variant. Also used for art pottery from Johannes Hedegaard

Based upon and translated from

Leif Bering Mikkelsen. Aluminia Fajance 1862 -1969

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