Reinhold Schlegelmilch was a porcelain

Porcelain

Porcelain is a ceramic material made by heating raw materials, generally including clay in the form of kaolin, in a kiln to temperatures between and...

 manufacturer in Suhl

Suhl

- Geography :Suhl sits on the south edge of the Suhler Scholle, an upthrust granite complex that is streaked by numerous dikes. This is part of the Ruhla-Schleusingen Horst that defines the southwest side of the Thuringian Forest...

, Germany

Germany

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, founded in the 19th century.

Mark

The factory mark was the initials "RS" in red encircled by a green wreath beneath a red five-pointed star.

Successors

Reinhold Schlegelmilch had two sons, Arnold Schlegelmilch and Ehrhard Schlegelmilch.

Suhl

Ehrhard Schlegelmilch operated the factory in Suhl, and during this period, most of the pieces exported to the United States

United States

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 bore the "RS Prussia" mark stamped in red.

Tillowitz

Arnold Schlegelmilch started a factory in Tillowitz, then Germany (now Tułowice), Poland. In 1910, the Tillowitz factory began using the "RS Germany" mark stamped in green. The Tillowitz factory kept producing porcelain through the Second World War. The company was taken over by the Polish state in 1946 and privatized in 1995 unter the name Fabryka Porcelitu Tułowice SA. The production in 2011 concentrated on sanitary and building ceramics including tiles.

Export

These two operations produced the majority of their products for export beginning in 1892 up until the beginning of World War I

World War I

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See also

• Pickard China
  Pickard China
  Pickard China is a porcelain decorating and manufacturing company in Antioch, Illinois, United States, founded in 1893, and continues to produce ceramic tableware and art ware today.-History:Pickard China was incorporated in Edgerton, Wisconsin, in 1893...
  
  
• Osborne T. Olsen