Calling card inscribed with the name Professor Plattner on small tablet set in landscape with view of foundry buildings below crossed hammer and gad

Calling Card

Possibly Lauchhammer foundry

1842/56

The name on the calling card refers to Carl Friedrich Plattner (1800-1858), professor of metallurgy at the Freiburg Mining Akademie from 1842 to 1856.

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