Objects

The candle holder was donated by Claudia Greif.

The candlestick on a square, arched foot with floral decoration and scallop ornament.

The candlestick base is richly decorated, the sleeve is decorated with a scallop ornament, the dripstone has a spreading collar. The object is dated to 1850.

The candlestick is a product of the Norblin & S-ka company (full name: Towarzystwo Akcyjne Fabryk Metalowych "Norblin, Bracia Buch i T. Werner"). The company was based in Warsaw, on Żelazna Street 49/53, and produced its famous platters. In 1896, it was awarded the highest Russian decoration - the right to stamp the Tsar's double-headed eagle on its products. A network of Norblin's shops operated in the Kingdom of Poland and in the largest cities of the Russian Empire (as big as St. Petersburg, Moscow, Odessa, Kiev, Riga, Vilnius or Minsk). The company even had a trade representative office in Teheran. All this clearly attests to the reputation of Norblin's plating.

In the reborn Republic of Poland, Norblin's company was one of the most important Polish metal enterprises. After World War II, the heavily damaged factory was nationalised and functioned as Walcownia Metali "Warszawa" [Metal Rolling Mill "Warsaw"]. In the 1980s production was shut down and the factory fulfilled museum and artistic functions, its buildings were successively entered in the register of monuments or demolished.

Currently, work is underway on the modern development of the surviving post-factory space - an office and commercial complex is being built with a publicly accessible walkway and museum space to commemorate the Norblin factory.

Natalia Różańska