Welcome to
the Gerold Porzellan Collector's Website.
This website is a source
of information dedicated
to the history, research and preservation of Gerold
Porzellan from Tettau, Bavaria, Germany. Gerold porcelain
was produced between the years of 1904 and 1997. Germany has
long been reknown for having some of the finest porcelain
artists and manufacturing facilities in the world. Gerold is
no exception and many of their items are rare.
Important Notice: Effective February 24th, 2024, this
website will no longer exist with Fatcow.com hosting so
there may be some downtime while I search for a new webhost.
Fatcow has the audacity, after 20 years of being with them,
to raise the hosting fees to almost $300.00 a year! It
breaks my heart to have to start all over, but being on a
fixed income through Social Security, I can no longer afford
those kinds of prices. I am sorry to all my faithful
followers and thank you for your support. It may be a while
before I am back.
Update 2/5/24: I have taken all the webpages and
converting them to PDF's to sell on Amazon.com and on other
sites. It will take a while to get it organized and
edited, but I will annouce their availabilty on my Facebook
Page at
https://www.facebook.com/geroldporzellan
If
you have never heard of Gerold porcelain before, you are not alone.
The Gerold Porzellan Company is one of the lesser known Bavarian
producers of fine porcelain, but gaining popularity due in part
to this website. Prior to 1999, there were no websites on
the World Wide Web to provide any information about these collectible
porcelain figurines and household items. Today this is the premiere website to
learn about Gerold Porzellan.
The Photo
Gallery includes over ten thousand images of Gerold products, just
a fraction of the number of products that the company produced.
Everything I could find out about the company can be found on the
History page.
Information about the Gerold Porzellan marks can be found on
the Marks
page.
Please enjoy viewing the many photo galleries listed in the
navigation menu to the left.
For those of you who are visiting
for the first time, let me explain that this website is
for informational purposes only. Please see
my
Disclaimer.
The Photo Gallery contains pictures donated by people from all
over the world of their Gerold Porzellan collectibles, thereby
providing a means for others to help identify their own Gerold items
and learn more about the Gerold Porzellan Company.
This website is a photo gallery of thousands of photos which
I have compiled over the course of 40 years. I do not
sell replacement parts. This is my hobby. I am in no way affiliated
with the Gerold Porzellan Company, in fact, the company no longer
exists.
Note To ebayers
!
The content
on this website is copyrighted and therefore I request that
you
ASK MY PERMISSION
before quoting any of my information in your item description.
Want to know
the value of your Gerold Porzellan item?
The
number one question I'm always asked is, "What is my item is
worth?" In the beginning, I was nervous about quoting a
price because I am not a licensed appraiser. (again,
see my Disclaimer) However, the
same question continued to be asked of me time after time.
Therefore, I
have created a
Value Guide with all
of the current known values, guesstimates, and what I feel
an item is worth based on my 40+ years of collecting and
experience. I am making
the Value Guides available for a
minimal fee of $5.00 per category guide to help defray the cost of web
hosting. I periodically update the value guides with even more photos, updated missing model numbers
...
the most recent update completed in March of 2023. For more information on how to
obtain these Value Guides, go to the
Value Guide page.
Submit A Photo
If you have photos that you
would like to submit to the gallery please go to the
Contact
page for more information. Not all photos are accepted,
especially if others of an identical item already exist. Be sure
to include your full name so I can cite you as the owner of
the photo. Also, include any markings, incised model numbers,
dimensions, artist name, etc, that appear on the item.
The more information the better.
WANTED!
If you have information
or historical knowledge of the Gerold Porzellan Company or its
marks, perhaps a former
employee, I want to hear from you!
I would like to learn as much as I can about the company and
the products they produced. There are still some
former employees alive today and I would love to hear from
you. Even if you speak only German, I can use an online
translator, such as Google Translate, to translate your story. Please
contact me and
I will reply to you as soon as possible. I am
especially very interested in the Gerold catalogs,
brochures, flyers...any paper documentation, as these
provide so much information about the products.
Missing Model Numbers & Dimensions
Another
way to help grow this resource is to provide missing model numbers.
Throughout the site you
will notice many figurines are missing their model numbers and
marked with an" N/A"
mainly because they were either too difficult to read or,
rarely, they simply did not have a number inscribed on the bottom of the item. If
you have a Gerold Porzellan item with a legible model number
and I don't have it listed, please
contact me.
Some model numbers
are very difficult to see, but by using a flashlight, or by looking
at it in bright sunlight, it may help you to see it clearer.
Also, during that time period (prior to 1960's), the German
numbers 1 and 7 looked
very similar except the numeral 7 had a cross-hatch through
it. The image shows what I'm describing. I'm also
interested in knowing the dimensions of items.
Spread the Word!
Please help spread the
word about this website and send the link
http://www.gerold-porzellan.com
to your collector friends, antique dealers & anyone
else you think would be interested. This site
is constantly evolving and being updated with new
photos and/or information.
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Sincere Thanks!
And
now a note of personal thanks...I am eternally grateful to everyone
who has given me permission to post their photos...without
them this site wouldn't be possible. I take no credit
for these photos...they belong to other people who have
donated them for the express purpose of helping other people to
identify and learn more about their own Gerold Porzellan
items. Just so you are aware, I do peruse ebay for
Gerold images to display, but I always ask permission to put
them on my website. You may have already heard from
me!
Warm Regards,
JoAnn Snow
Gerold Porzellan Collector
I would love to hear from other
collectors! Contact
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