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Busath, Edouard
Identity
Category
Person (Male)
Alternative name or descriptor
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Status
- Connected
Details
Life dates
Buchheim [Prussia], 1860 - ?, ?
Activity
1898 - 1913 / Bruxelles, Montagne aux Herbes Potagères, 9
° 20.9.1860. "Electrotyping, halftone, stereotyping, wood engraving. Autotyping. Process blocks. Blocks for illustrating catalogues, prospectuses, albums, etc." [Mertens, 1900]. Firm founded in 1880 and reportedly the earliest mass-producer of enamel signs in Belgium. Busath went bankrupt by 1913, but the company continued as "Etablissements Busath, S.A." led by Emile Terfve. Edouard's son Robert Busath (° Brussels, 4.10.1895; + Brussels - Ixelles, 19.3.1959) had a business in Brussels - Ixelles specialising in photography on porcelain at the beginning of the 1920s. In later years, Robert was a member of the “Union des Photographes Professionnels de Belgique" (U.P.P.B.) and the ’’Fédération Générale de Belgique des Négociants en Articles Photographiques et Cinématographiques’’.
1898 - 1902 Bruxelles - Schaerbeek, Avenue du Midi, 61
Branch.
1898 - 1902 Bruxelles - Schaerbeek, Rue Montagne des Cailloux, 20
Factory.
1907 - 1910 Bruxelles - Schaerbeek, Vallée Josephat
Factory.
1911 - 1913 / Bruxelles - Forest, Avenue Van Volxem, 284
Factory.
° 20.9.1860. "Electrotyping, halftone, stereotyping, wood engraving. Autotyping. Process blocks. Blocks for illustrating catalogues, prospectuses, albums, etc." [Mertens, 1900]. Firm founded in 1880 and reportedly the earliest mass-producer of enamel signs in Belgium. Busath went bankrupt by 1913, but the company continued as "Etablissements Busath, S.A." led by Emile Terfve. Edouard's son Robert Busath (° Brussels, 4.10.1895; + Brussels - Ixelles, 19.3.1959) had a business in Brussels - Ixelles specialising in photography on porcelain at the beginning of the 1920s. In later years, Robert was a member of the “Union des Photographes Professionnels de Belgique" (U.P.P.B.) and the ’’Fédération Générale de Belgique des Négociants en Articles Photographiques et Cinématographiques’’.
1898 - 1902 Bruxelles - Schaerbeek, Avenue du Midi, 61
Branch.
1898 - 1902 Bruxelles - Schaerbeek, Rue Montagne des Cailloux, 20
Factory.
1907 - 1910 Bruxelles - Schaerbeek, Vallée Josephat
Factory.
1911 - 1913 / Bruxelles - Forest, Avenue Van Volxem, 284
Factory.
Locations
1898 - 1913 / Bruxelles, Montagne aux Herbes Potagères, 9
1898 - 1902 Bruxelles - Schaerbeek, Avenue du Midi, 61
1898 - 1902 Bruxelles - Schaerbeek, Rue Montagne des Cailloux, 20
1907 - 1910 Bruxelles - Schaerbeek, Vallée Josephat
1911 - 1913 / Bruxelles - Forest, Avenue Van Volxem, 284
1898 - 1902 Bruxelles - Schaerbeek, Avenue du Midi, 61
1898 - 1902 Bruxelles - Schaerbeek, Rue Montagne des Cailloux, 20
1907 - 1910 Bruxelles - Schaerbeek, Vallée Josephat
1911 - 1913 / Bruxelles - Forest, Avenue Van Volxem, 284
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Management
Record source
DIRECTORY_1997#531
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Dates of creation/revision
SFJ revised 30.6.2017; MD revised 10.8.2020 & 13.11.2020; MD revised 15.1.2021 partially based on information supplied by Jan De Plus; MD revised 8.2.2021 based on information supplied by Pool Andries