Tea set - Alt England Rosslau porcelain - 43 pieces - Decoration of landscapes with adornments in black and blue. It is composed of: 1 tea or coffee pot (1 litre), 2 jars (2 litre x 2), 1 sugar bowl, 11 saucers (14.7 cm), 11 small cups, 12 dessert plates (17.2 cm), 9 large cups. Total of 45 pieces. In 1853, painter Carl Schomburg founded in Berlin a porcelain company along with his sons Rodolfo and Hermann. The first factory was built in Berlin-Moabit, 1873, then the branch Margarethe factory House in Bautzen, Großdubrau was added. In 1897, the company became a public limited company, H. ​Schomburg & Sons, at the same time, searched for a new factory location. They chose a place in Rosslau, the Castle of Wall Street number 38. In 1898 the third porcelain factory opened in Rosslau. Starting the operations of Schomburg & Sons Ltd. The product range of the Schomburg & Sons company included, after the establishment in Berlin, the first porcelain items for pharmaceutical and medical purposes. Later, their production focused in technical porcelain. Mainly they produced low-voltage insulators for emerging telephone and telegraph lines. Schomburg & Sons was along with the Royal Porcelain factory in Prussia (KPM) the main supplier for the Imperial post office. At the beginning of the century, there was a demand for high-voltage insulators The construction of transmission lines for the distribution of power is particularly associated with the name of Siemens. Large contracts were signed by Siemens Schomburg & Sons. From 1912, high-voltage insulators were manufactured in Rosslau. Schomburg & Sons exported to 21 countries, including the United States. In 1922 Europe saw the foundation of the H. Schomburg & Söhne AG Aktiengesellschaft and Kahla porcelain factory in the so-called Strupp Group. The resulting Hermsdorf-Schomburg GmbH (Hescho) insulators could be exclusively prepared with the Cleopatra-shaped porcelain mass, also produced by other porcelain factories with the “China Blue” decoration in Rosslau 1924. Of course, a variety of other shapes and decorations were made after they switched to tableware, such as ‘Old England’ or ‘Askania-gold’. Transportation routes for raw materials and coal, and the lack of their own railway connection - From 1929 the disadvantages of the Rosslau location had a negative impact. In 1932, during the great depression, the Rosslau part of the Schomburg company was closed.