Decorative briquette

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Decorative briquette on the occasion of the 1974 World Cup
Decorative briquette on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the GDR

Ornamental briquettes , also known as jewelery , special or collector / collector briquettes , are coal briquettes (mainly as lignite ) that are not pressed by the producing briquette factory with the usual brand name or emblem , but an elaborate special embossing with text and / or image receive.

The special imprint is created by a corresponding negative form on the stamp of the briquette press . The raised embossing is colored after pressing, mostly multicolored and by hand.

Ornamental briquettes are not intended for heating like normal briquettes , but as a souvenir, honor or advertising medium. They are preferably used by the factories on special occasions such as holidays, anniversaries, events, openings or closings of parts of the company, etc. Ä. Manufactured in limited numbers. During the times of the GDR and the German Empire in particular , the briquettes were occasionally provided with political messages (see picture).

Collections

Decorative briquettes are among the collector's items . They are searched for by interested private individuals, systematically recorded and exchanged and traded on appropriate collector's markets. Similar to comparable collectibles, the collector's value of a briquette depends on its age, the degree of preservation , the number of copies and the special features of the format and print.

Since almost all briquette factories in countries like Germany have been shut down, fewer and fewer new editions of decorative briquettes are being issued. Briquettes are therefore of subordinate importance among collectors' items compared to everyday items that are still produced in large numbers. The number of collectors is relatively small. The hobby got a certain upswing in the wake of the Ostalgie wave after the end of the GDR.

The Rhineland collector Josef Kau made it into the Guinness Book of Records with what was then the largest collection of this type in the world (2560 pieces) . Later, Kau's collection grew to more than 5,500 pieces, but the record was clearly exceeded again by Karl-Josef Buchen, another collector from the Rhineland, with around 8,000 briquettes.

A comprehensive directory of the special briquettes of the German coal districts (based on the example of other collector's catalogs such as the Michel ) has been compiled by a working group of German mining companies and museums since 2008. So far, only incomplete lists exist.

Exhibitions

Part of the jewelry briquette exhibition in the German Mining Museum in Bochum

Some specialized museums also present collections of decorative briquettes as evidence of the mining history:

literature

  • Rainer Slotta : Ornamental briquettes made from brown coal. A closer look at products of remarkable cultural history . In: Saarbrücken miners' calendar . 1998, DNB  011243570 , p. 67-71 .

Web links

Commons : Ornamental Briquette  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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