Identifier: crockeryglassjou78newy (find matches)
Title: Crockery & glass journal
Year: 1875 (1870s)
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Subjects: Pottery Glass Glassware
Publisher: New York : G. Whittemore & Co.
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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apparatus 34 Music boxes 63 Phonographs 44 Musical instruments 108 Optical goods 28 Photographic apparatus and accessories .37 Electrical goods 58 Surgical instruments and apparatus 23 Machines 45 Important changes took place in Europe and particu-larly in Germany—the development of the factory sys-tem, the increase of the population, and of the homeconsumption of merchandise, the centralization and uni-fication of Germany, and the improvement in the meansof transportation. All these elements more or lessafifected the trading at the Leipzig Fair. Originally theLeipzig Fair was one of the few places where largequantities of goods could be not only inspected but alsodelivered and accepted. The financing of business hadone of its important centers in Leipzig. Emperorsassured the Leipzig traders security of life and propertyand business drifted here because of special safety. Inthe course of time the handling of many classes of goodswas taken over by Leipzig wholesalers independent of 3
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33 ihc fair. This refers to \vot)l and yarns, tobacco, wines,paints, ores, drugs, chemicals, etc., and it may be saidthat all of those important lines, now handled on solarge a scale by Leipzig- jobbers, first found their wayinto this district through the fair, where these goods usedto be sold in bulk. This origin of numerous classes of Leipzigs jobbingtrade is seen in the appellations of many jobbers organi-zations, which still have the word messe, or fair,incorporated in their names: Ledermessborse, orLeather Fair Exchange, Borstenmesse, or BristleFair, Papiermesse, or Paper Fair of the MiddleGerman Paper Manufacturers Association, Buchhaend-lermesse, or Booksellers Fair, the latter being a con-vention of booksellers for discussion of their problems,followed by a mutual inspection of assortments, etc.(Here, too, the bookseller returns to the publisher booksunsold during the year and pays for those sold.) TheYarn Exchange of Leipzig is an occasion for a meetingof spinners, weavers, d

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