Hello ceramic collectors,

this is a small collectors guide for West German ceramic marks and FAT LAVA pottery:
This mark gallery is still under construction. For now a small overview:

Cortendorf:

facts: white clay, two differnt marks: "C with crown" or "COR in oval" -differnt years of production
They produced dishes, figures and many other things...

Waechtersbach (Waechtersbach):

 
facts: red/brown clay, often: impressed "shield mark", sometimes: printed "shield mark", sometimes: name of the decor
They produced dishes, vases and many other things....

Ü-Keramik (Ue-Keramik or Uebelacker):

facts: white/fawn clay, impressed and moulded numbers, often: wider numbers than other manufactures
Ü-Keramik is frquently confused with Bay, Ruscha, Jasba and Jopeko.

Roth:

facts: light and dark red clay, impressed numbers, sometimes: 0,5 l (capacity), sometimes: Made in W. Germany
Roth is frequently confused with Soendgen.

Ruscha:

facts: white/fawn clay and light red clay, impessed and moulded numbers, wall tiles are often stamped
Ruscha is frequently confused with other manufactures because of their differnt style of lettering and clay.

Scheurich:

 
facts: white/fawn clay, moulded numbers and W.GERMANY, Left: 1950/60s, right: 1960/70s
plates and dishes: often with impressed marks!
Scheurich is the most popular manufacturer with a wide range of stunning forms and glazes.

Bay:

facts: white/fawn clay, moulded numbers, often: signed with "Bay", sometimes: WEST or. W.- GERMANY
They often used a typical "y" in the word "GERMANy"

Dümler & Breiden (Duemler and Breiden):

facts: white/fawn clay, impressed numbers, often with "GERMANY", Left: 1960/70s, Right: 1950s
They used a square cut type of lettering as shown above.

Carstens Toennieshof (Tönnieshof):

facts: red clay, most moulded numbers (sometimes impressed), often: "TC double-house mark", often: W.-GERMANY or W.-GERM.
Some pieces of a special produced range were not marked, for example some pieces designed by Gerda Heuckeroth.

Soendgen (Söndgen):

facts: light red clay, impressed numbers, often: "Made in West Germany"
Soendgen is frequently confused with Roth.




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...  and... please excuse my english i am German :-)

Thanks for now and feel free to visit my eBay-Shop for West German ceramics and much FAT LAVA vases --> EBAY-SHOP - FIREANDFLAMEDE

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Kevin from Germany, Lower Saxony, Hildesheim close to Hanover
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