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End: 1980 |
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Place: Oosterhout |
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De Toekomst, Aardewerkfabriek NV
Poured ceramics, pottery gnomes and childerns dinnerware sets before 1945 by Aardewerkfabriek/Pottery Factory De Toekomst. After World War II mass production by extreme mechanization, first complete dinner sets, later on contemporary (big demand) cups & saucers with black/white dots outside, pastel colours inside, sold under name Eastwood in Engeland.
Rival Sphinx-Ceramique takes over De Toekomst in 1960, after that Sphinx regulates 50 per cent of the dinnerware market. Every year three million cups and saucers were distributed internationally and 1 million went straight to the departmentstores of the Hema.
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