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THE CARL MAMPE LIQUOR EMPIRE: REVISED UPDATE PART 1  *************  ************In the early 1800s cholera was spreading through Germany rampant. Dr. Carl Mampe was the medical practitioner and Royal Prussian Privy Medical Councilor. He was brewing with alcohol and healing herbs mixed together to make his brandy stomach Bitter Drop which he sold in pharmacies. He started making his schnapps and herb medicine in the 1830s in the city of Stargard, Pomerania. It was said that his Bitter Drops may even bring the dead back to life. Dr. Carl Mampe would soon stop making his cholera agent and donate his original recipe to his two step brothers Ferdinand Johnann and Carl Mampe Jr.. The company opened in 1835, in Stargard, Germany. The mark Ur-Mampe was created in 1835 and became as Stargader Mampe. Carl Mampe Jr. in 1852 would open a liquor factory in Koszalin, Pomeralin. Dr. Carl Mampe would die in 1857. Both Fredinand Johnann and Carl Mampe Jr. who ran two companies and were using the same recipe to produce there product. The two brothers had a disagreement, which started a family internal competition. In 1877 Carl Mampe moved his family business to Berlin where he founded the Carl Mampe A. G. Company with Walter Aleith. Berlin at the time was a booming capital of the early German Empire. Carl Mampe factory which was now in Berlin and his step brother Ferdinand Johnann, FJ Mampe Factory still located in Stargard, which was rebuilt in Hamburg after World War 2. The family competition lasted till the 1960s. In 1894 Carl Mampe developed the famous Mampe Half and Half Liqueur. This liqueur due to its one hundred and thirty herbs was also known to give a stomachic effect.  Carl Mampe or in English Carl Gin. Died in February 10, 1899. Robert Exner who was a advertising representative would become a partner in 1898 and in 1900 would become the sole owner. Unfortunately Carl Mampe Jr. would not see the largest moment of his firms history. In April 30, 1904 The Worlds Exposition Fair was going on in St. Louis, Missouri. On this occasion liquor originating from Germany should attain worldwide reputation. The Orange bitter Likor Mampe Half & Half winning the distinguished grand prize. In 1896 the firm won the Royal Prussian State Medal in Berlin. The Berliner Mampe-Kummel also being a gold medal winner in Buenous Aires 1910. Also the Grand Prize International Culinary Art exhibition in Frankfurt Am Main in 1937. Robert Exner would succeed in making his company one of the leading brands in the German liqueur industry. In 1922 he acquired the oldest German wine distillery the Teicheimann and Swing which was founded in 1784. By 1929 Exner had increased the production of the wine distillery to 78 liqueur and brandies, which were exported all over the world. This company lasted into the 1980s, making just a few products. The family business was sold and became Mampe Half and Half and Lufthansa cocktail under license by Berentzen Manufacture. Carl Mampes grave is to be found today in the Musician Cemetery, so called (The Sophiengemeinde Berlin) and represents the most important pilgrim place of the Mampejunger. Below are photos of some Carl Mampe's bottles from the beginning till the end. You can see the many different styles, shapes and colors of these bottles. Even the many variants of the embossed elfphants and the differents sizes that were offered. Most all of the embossed bottles had there famous trade mark of the Mampe Elephant. The early Carl Mampe bottles that were embossed had the street address of S.W. Halleschestrasse 17. This was the main factory address in Berlin. They might have had other factory sites in Berlin. We have two other embossed bottles with the address of Schutzmarke Veteranenstrasse 25 and also Veteranenstrasse 24. This address was six miles away from the main factory site. Below are photos of some 8- sided rectangular bottles.    .. ..  ............................ 
Sample
size..............................*********************************************************** Below are some photos of square bottles. Five different sizes. Block lettering. Block lettering on shoulder.  Script lettering on face.  Note Berlin and Hamburg. Also the date on the label of 1896 Front label reads. Mampes Medical Bitters M.M.B. / Elephant (monogram of elephant) Brand / Trade Mark Berlin / Founded in 1852 in Berlin Germany. A preparation of Angostura bark and other herbs of medical value of agreeable flavor medical bitters are prescribed. Side label reads. Aromatic & delicate flavor. These bitters are free from harmful drugs and are composed of herbs of medical character. Dose half table spoonful in equal amount of water before meals. Sugar may be added to increase palatability; they may also be advantageously us as a flavoring for plum puddings, mock turtle soup, souses, grape fruit etc. The other side is in German. .. ..
Sample size 2 inches in
height.Another small sample size in a different lip treatmant. Newer amber squares. This 1970s bottle is a remake from the past .  .. ***************************************************************** There are bottles that are embossed with the words Berlin and Danzig. The city of Danzig and East Prussia were separated from Germany just after World War 1. Below are some photos of square with rounded shoulder.  Both bottle are embossed with Berlin and Danzig. The apple green bottle does not have a elephant embossed.  *********************************************************** Below are some photos of lady leg bottles. Both are embossed with Berlin and Danzig. Another sample lady leg without Danzig embossed. ..Lot of 5 embossed with Berlin and Danzig. Two more with Danzig embossed. *********************************************************** Below are some photos of 6-sided bottles. ..*********************************************************** Below are some photos of flask bottles. *********************************************************** Below are some photos of older round bottles.  The first bottle is embossed with Belin and Danzig. ....*********************************************************** Below are some newer round bottles.  The green bottles are embossed with mampe Berlin only.   . Lable***************************************************************** Below are some photos of 8-sided square bottles.   ..*********************************************************** Below is a kummel bear figural bottle with a carl mampe label. ..*********************************************************** Below is a figural pottery glazed elephant. *********************************************************** Blow is a pottery mampe bottle.  . ***************************************************************** Below is a newer round bottle with no elephant embossed. Below is a sample bottle. ..Below is a figural car. Below is a newer sample box. *********************************************************** The Mampe Company in the early days to there closure were big on marketing their products. They donated two dwarf elephants name Carl and the other Mampe to the Berlin Zoo. The business seemed to always flourish having new products on the market. In the 1930s over 70 different varieties were served on Zeppelin flights. In the 1960s and 1970s they were big sponsors of auto racing. Below are photos of some go withs form the Carl Mampes liquor empire.  These plastic elephants would be tide around the neck of some bottles.  A lithogragh poster
from around 1910. A ceramic display piece which would have held
a round bottle. Carl Mampe tokens.....Letter seal mark stamps from 1910 to 1915.  .  .
1939. .
Trademark. . Booklet
1950s-1960s. . Mampe mini jug. *********************************************************** The business also owned several restaurants all called Mampes Gutu Stube (Mampe's Living Rooms). The Most famous of which was at Kurfurstendamm 14/15 Berlin which opened in 1917. The restaurant closed in 1986. Below are photos of some post cards of the famous Mampes Gute Stube Parlors in Germany. 1913 Berlin. 1924 Kurfurstendamm 1914 Berlin. 1924 Berlin. Berlin 1958 Berlin 1945 Kurfurstendamm. Hamburg. 1907 Berlin. Mampe Halb & Halb at the dinner
table.Kurfurstendamm. Hamburg 1915. Kurfurstendamm.  .1917  References: Frank & Frank Jr. (Wicker) Bottle Collection. |
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