Crockery & glass journal . he State. In the year 1809 the buildings and neighboringlands came into the possession of Jean Francois at that time was a small fishing village withabout twenty families. It was a great blessing tothese poor villagers when Mr. Boch turned the ruinedabbey into an earthenware factory. He not only managed this factory, but also an-other founded by his father, Pierre Joseph Boch, in1767, at Septfontaines, near Luxemburg, and about The factory at Mettlach, which was the first onthe Continent to apply printing on earthenware underthe glaze on an extensive sc
Crockery & glass journal . he State. In the year 1809 the buildings and neighboringlands came into the possession of Jean Francois at that time was a small fishing village withabout twenty families. It was a great blessing tothese poor villagers when Mr. Boch turned the ruinedabbey into an earthenware factory. He not only managed this factory, but also an-other founded by his father, Pierre Joseph Boch, in1767, at Septfontaines, near Luxemburg, and about The factory at Mettlach, which was the first onthe Continent to apply printing on earthenware underthe glaze on an extensive scale by means of copperplates, and which was also the first to use water powerto drive the potters lathes (foot, power being previ-ously the only means), has therefore also the distinc-tion of being the first to introduce there coal-firing inthe kilns, which method was soon after introduced atthe factory founded by Nicholas Villeroy at Waller-fangen, near Saarlouis, in 1789. Gradually these factories prospered and expanded,. DETAIL OF BASE OF OLD TOWER which we will speak later on, until the year 1832,when his oldest son, Eugene, after completing hisstudies in Paris, was able to take full charge of theMettlach factory. The basin of the river Saar abounds in bard coal—in fact, it is one of the chief coal fields in Germany—and one of the governmental conditions underwhich Boch was permitted to operate his factory wasthat the fuel used in firing should consist of only-hard coal, whereas up to that time the ceramic indus-try of the Continent was only familiar with wood-fir-ing; he therefore succeeded only after many and longtrials in producing a ware that was marketable. so that on January 1, 1841, the members of the thenfriendly families (and later on related by marriage)of Villeroy and Boch formed the present joint stockcompany, with its headquarters at Mettlach. After their consolidation the factories developedrapidly in consequence of the interchange of experi-ences, introdu
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