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$4999.99~>$2499.99

2025/12/08

Antique Cast Iron ADVERTISING Sign German

Designed for Ammonia Sales Association (DAVV)

Late 1800s ú⁷

This sign has two "hangers for attaching this to the the wall

WE BELIEVE THIS PIECE WAS MADE SOME TIME IN THE LATE 1890s OR EARLY 1900s.

Features DAVV company LOGO as well as the full name of the company engraved on the back. See photographs. Sold as is. Will be very carefully packaged between sheets of insulating foam board.

From our Family estate.

"The Ruhr-nitrogen AG, headquartered in Bochum was built in 1952 from the 1895 founded the German Ammonia Sales Association (Davv) and was one of the largest fertilizer producer in Europe. The Ruhr-nitrogen AG was taken over by Norsk Hydroin 1985."  

Rare cast iron advertising piece... 19th century or early 20th century.... Victorian era? ABOUT 13" IN LENGTH.

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From Wikipedia: "In 1895, the DAVV was founded by several companies that processed coke by-products (including Dr. C. Otto & Comp., The mining company Hibernia) in order to control the trade and prices of ammonia products. In order to substantiate the effectiveness of the artificial fertilizer, research into plant growth was started on test fields. It finally succeeded in replacing the fertilizer previously used in agriculture in the form of imported Chile saltpeter and guano with its own products. Gradually, almost 50 companies joined the DAVV sales organization, so that they finally became Kohlenwertstoff-AGin 1947 was renamed. In 1952, due to AHK law No. 27 of the Allied High Commission for the unbundling of the coal and steel industry of May 16, 1950, this was splitinto the three companies Ruhr-nitrogen AG, BV-Aral AG, and sales association for tar products AG. In addition to trading, Ruhr-nitrogen later also took over the fertilizer production facilities. In July 1957, in order to intensify research, the Hanninghof on the outskirts of Dlmen was bought as a test and research station with the option of field experiments.[1] In 1968 around half of the nitrogen fertilizer produced in Germany comes from the Ruhr-Nitrogen - a total of around 4 million tons of fertilizers and chemical products are produced annually. In July 1974 the federally owned Veba A

Gtook over themajority of the shares[2]and in 1978 finally became sole shareholder. The Veba chemical subsidiary Chemische Werke Hlssold Ruhr-nitrogen to the Norwegian company Norsk Hydro in 1985, and the crop protection sector was sold to the UScompany DuPont.Norsk Hydro renamed the Ruhr-nitrogen AG inNorsk Hydro Ruhr Aktiengesellschaftand laterNorsk Hydro Deutschland GmbH, with which the company name (company) ceased to exist. In 2003 the Hydro group spun off the fertilizer business (Hydro Agri) into the separate joint stock company YARA.