Carstens Tönnieshof ceramic mark guide:

Name: Carstens Toennieshof
City: Freden an der Leine
Province: Lower Saxony 
Land: former "West Germany"
Active from: 1945-1984

Some facts about carstens: a red clay was used, mostly signed with moulded numbers (sometimes impressed). They often used their "TC double-house mark" (if there is enough space on the base). Often additional: "W.-GERMANY" or "W.-GERM." Also some pieces are marked with "Austria", this were produced in their factory in Austria. Some pieces of a special range were not marked, for example some pieces designed by Gerda Heuckeroth. And others had only labels...

Carstens Tönnieshof (Toennieshof) marks-gallery:

Only three of their labels:

Left: old gold foil label - 1950/60s
Mid: gold foil label - 1960/70s
Right: paper label with fabric spiral - 1970s (here special "Boutique" range)

Their designer:

Trude Carstens, Heinz Siery, Gerda Heuckeroth, Dieter Peter ...

Their special ranges:

Carstens- "Luxus", "Boutique", "Atelier"

Please note: you can not identify all pieces with their base marks, rather with their glazes or form-numbers. Collecting west german ceramics of the 1960/70s fat lava era is still a mostly uncovered collecting field with many, many sided secrets...

This mark gallery is still under construction! I would like to put in more and bigger pictures but you can only add 10 of them in this small size :-(
So i am going to write a guide about every popular manufacturer, in the next weeks... 

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Kevin from Germany, Lower Saxony, Hildesheim close to Hanover
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