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POTASSE D'ALSACE - SCORALSACE. Flat enamelled plate, single-…
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POTASSE D'ALSACE - SCORALSACE. Flat enamelled plate, single-…
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Lot no. 38
Description
POTASSE D'ALSACE - SCORALSACE. Flat enamelled plate, single-sided, circa 1960, after Hansi (not mentioned).
Approximately 1000 made (source: "histoire de plaques de Pierre Meyer").
Good condition, very good colours, good brightness, minor chips to the attachments.
60 x 48.5 cm.
Enamelling: "émaillerie Alsacienne de Strasbourg Hoenheim".
-Represents the Alsatian stork-
The only potash deposit in France (Mulhouse) discovered by chance in 1904 by Amélie Zürcher and Joseph Vogt.
Potash production began in 1910 at the Amélie mine in Wittelsheim, with extraction ceasing in 2002.
Potash": a word of Dutch origin (potasch) meaning "pot ash" and referring to the potassium carbonate obtained from wood ash: water was slowly poured over burnt wood ash, and the resulting solution was boiled in large pots until a white solid was formed, which was used as a fertiliser (source: mines.musees-mulhouse.fr and lithotheque.site.ac-strasbourg.fr ).
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