Hello: Vern
What is your source showing Gebr. Wester used (Fridericus) as a Brand-name??
Wester Gebr. was in business at least by 1905 .
The brothers names were Richard, Franz and Ernst.
They also owned another company "Wester and Butz" (have trademarks from 1895 in my collection of source material) with there other brothers Karl and Max this company was dissolved the 8th Feb. 1979 (different owners than of course.)
But here is another problem this Karl Wester is not the Damascus smith Karl Carl.. As this brother Karl Carl Wester had trademarks dating from 1904 under his own name.. I have this in my personal period trademark books.
There is more than one Carl Wester and Paul Dinger in the Solingen Address books and this trips up researchers who do not do there homework.
But for the life of me I cannot find a paper trail showing any Wester company using the BRAND-NAME "Fridericus"
P.S. I have been to the old WE-DI forge . Now it is gone.
Last edited by DAMAST; 11/27/2015 05:16 AM.
