Mik's (H)ob(by)session: 2019

Saturday, 14 December 2019

Száb DELTA Kombináció "Reflektor" Gyartmany 220 Volt - 550 Watt

Desider Stern working with Imre Simon in Budapest

Some information is still impossible to find, and i am - as the years go by - starting to accept it.

So any strike of luck is feeling like Christmas.

Desider Stern worked from the 8th of December 1945 until January 1949 as a technical engineer for 1500 Forint per month by Imre Simon.

Tuesday, 13 August 2019

Hungarian (Szigony + Qualital) Bambi coffee machine + base

Never seen... Didn't even know it existed... call me an "expert" ;-)

(Thanks Gabór for the beautiful pictures)

Giordano Robbiati - Patent n°19043 - Depositato 19 novembre 1940

If you look in "Bolletino der marchi di fabbrica e di commercio 1940",

you will find this:

ROBBIATI Giordano a Milano. - Tt. Listello

di raccordo per modello di fonderia in cuioi o si-

mile. - Dp. 19 novembre 1940 19043

Sunday, 16 June 2019

Fritz Lüdi-Zumstein (1904 - 1981) from Grenchen (Switzerland)

Okay, that Culinor story - if any - gets on my nerves.

No traces anywhere.

Is there - at all - a connection between Fritz Lüdi-Zumstein (see here) and Culinor?

Who was he anyway?

Born in 1904, died on the 12. September 1981.

It looks like he was born as Fritz Lüdi, and the name Zumstein came afterwards.

Probably a marriage with a family member of a business Partner: Adolf Zumstein.

That marriage must have happened betwenn 1944 and 1949 where the name appeared in full.

The following papercut of 1948 is of interest: "Manufacturing of injection Moulding devices"

He registered a very cool trademark: ATMOS

(nothing to do with ATMOSS which is the

Australian Trade Marks Online Search System)

(ATMO are the first 4 letters of another much more interesting trademark, see here)

But then, in 1957, something completely different: Advertising signs...

Any Swiss around here who could help me?

Sunday, 5 May 2019

New Brevetti Robbiati "Atomic espresso" leaflet!!!

My collection of Brevetti Robbiati leaflets:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/stellabanana/sets/72157670575120953

Genuinely disgraceful...

... or pathetically hilarious but in an artisan manner ;.)

And this from the business "Bon Trading" of Irene Notaras that stopped importing coffee makers from the Robbiati family since - at the latest - 1989!

30 years ago!

Irene Notaras who is not able to provide proof of selling coffee from the early 70s onwards!

50 years ago!

If you don't smile reading the following, then i don't know.

"The section 58 ownership ground of opposition failed. Robertson J found that the supply of a small, free sample of ground coffee with instructions booklets for the ATOMIC coffee machines was solely to illustrate the grind of coffee required for those machines and not for the purpose of trade in coffee. However, the sale of coffee in half pound cans by Bon Trading was trade mark use of ATOMIC. However, this was historical use and Ms Notaras did not have any intention to supply ground coffee to consumers between the early 1970s and April 2015."

Read about the trademark registration decision:

here: http://www.selfmark.com.au/trademark-registration-atmo-decisions-february-2018/

here: https://gestalt.law/tag/atomic/

For those lost at this point, it is about a café "Atomic Espresso" in South Perth (Australia) involved in coffee trade.