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<p>[QUOTE="Ladybranch, post: 102700, member: 44"]The only furniture mark of "JJ" in a circle I could find mentioned was for a Johann M. Jahn (1816-1883). It seems he immigrated to the states in 1844 from Barth in the Prussian province of Pomerania. He finally settled in New Braunfels, TX. He had a 5 year apprenticed in a Prague cabinetmaker shop and spent 6 years in Switzerland where he earned his master craftsman designation before immigrating. Much of his furniture was not marked and some marked with <i>JJ</i> in a circle with sometimes "the legend <i>JJ/New Braunfels</i> or <i>Jahn</i> in black paint." He is written up in several Texas archives with his furniture displayed in museums. Seems "Jahn produced furniture in the Biedermeier style..."</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="5"><i>Texas Furniture, Volume One: The Cabinetmakers and Their Work, 1840-1880</i></font> By Lonn Taylor, David B. Warren. Page 310, right column:</p><p>"Examples of furniture from Jahn's shop exist marked with the initials JJ in a circle burned into the wood..."</p><p><br /></p><p>Page 80: Wardrobe by him</p><p>Page 274: Safe</p><p>Page 141: Side chair</p><p>Page 220: Sewing table</p><p>etc...</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=rF1lW7QfNlsC&pg=PA310&lpg=PA310&dq=1900+Furniture+maker:+%22JJ%22&source=bl&ots=oPOIdsL7x3&sig=-ZbTVy4wvV5V0FT136_uAMpH8u8&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjMzYaZ_O_JAhVFOz4KHfxiDZY4ChDoAQgoMAI#v=onepage&q=Jahn&f=false" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://books.google.com/books?id=rF1lW7QfNlsC&pg=PA310&lpg=PA310&dq=1900+Furniture+maker:+%22JJ%22&source=bl&ots=oPOIdsL7x3&sig=-ZbTVy4wvV5V0FT136_uAMpH8u8&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjMzYaZ_O_JAhVFOz4KHfxiDZY4ChDoAQgoMAI#v=onepage&q=Jahn&f=false" rel="nofollow">https://books.google.com/books?id=rF1lW7QfNlsC&pg=PA310&lpg=PA310&dq=1900+Furniture+maker:+"JJ"&source=bl&ots=oPOIdsL7x3&sig=-ZbTVy4wvV5V0FT136_uAMpH8u8&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjMzYaZ_O_JAhVFOz4KHfxiDZY4ChDoAQgoMAI#v=onepage&q=Jahn&f=false</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Other sites telling about him.</p><p><a href="http://www.co.comal.tx.us/Historical/RTHL_PDF/Jahn,%20Johann%20Michael.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.co.comal.tx.us/Historical/RTHL_PDF/Jahn,%20Johann%20Michael.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.co.comal.tx.us/Historical/RTHL_PDF/Jahn, Johann Michael.pdf</a></p><p><a href="http://sophienburg.com/blog/?p=610" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://sophienburg.com/blog/?p=610" rel="nofollow">http://sophienburg.com/blog/?p=610</a></p><p><a href="https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fjana" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fjana" rel="nofollow">https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fjana</a></p><p><a href="http://texasartisans.mfah.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15939coll10/id/0/rec/2" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://texasartisans.mfah.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15939coll10/id/0/rec/2" rel="nofollow">http://texasartisans.mfah.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15939coll10/id/0/rec/2</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I haven't found a picture of his JJ in a circle mark to compare it to yours.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ladybranch, post: 102700, member: 44"]The only furniture mark of "JJ" in a circle I could find mentioned was for a Johann M. Jahn (1816-1883). It seems he immigrated to the states in 1844 from Barth in the Prussian province of Pomerania. He finally settled in New Braunfels, TX. He had a 5 year apprenticed in a Prague cabinetmaker shop and spent 6 years in Switzerland where he earned his master craftsman designation before immigrating. Much of his furniture was not marked and some marked with [I]JJ[/I] in a circle with sometimes "the legend [I]JJ/New Braunfels[/I] or [I]Jahn[/I] in black paint." He is written up in several Texas archives with his furniture displayed in museums. Seems "Jahn produced furniture in the Biedermeier style..." [SIZE=5][I]Texas Furniture, Volume One: The Cabinetmakers and Their Work, 1840-1880[/I][/SIZE] By Lonn Taylor, David B. Warren. Page 310, right column: "Examples of furniture from Jahn's shop exist marked with the initials JJ in a circle burned into the wood..." Page 80: Wardrobe by him Page 274: Safe Page 141: Side chair Page 220: Sewing table etc... [URL='https://books.google.com/books?id=rF1lW7QfNlsC&pg=PA310&lpg=PA310&dq=1900+Furniture+maker:+%22JJ%22&source=bl&ots=oPOIdsL7x3&sig=-ZbTVy4wvV5V0FT136_uAMpH8u8&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjMzYaZ_O_JAhVFOz4KHfxiDZY4ChDoAQgoMAI#v=onepage&q=Jahn&f=false']https://books.google.com/books?id=rF1lW7QfNlsC&pg=PA310&lpg=PA310&dq=1900+Furniture+maker:+"JJ"&source=bl&ots=oPOIdsL7x3&sig=-ZbTVy4wvV5V0FT136_uAMpH8u8&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjMzYaZ_O_JAhVFOz4KHfxiDZY4ChDoAQgoMAI#v=onepage&q=Jahn&f=false[/URL] Other sites telling about him. [URL='http://www.co.comal.tx.us/Historical/RTHL_PDF/Jahn,%20Johann%20Michael.pdf']http://www.co.comal.tx.us/Historical/RTHL_PDF/Jahn, Johann Michael.pdf[/URL] [URL]http://sophienburg.com/blog/?p=610[/URL] [URL]https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fjana[/URL] [URL]http://texasartisans.mfah.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15939coll10/id/0/rec/2[/URL] I haven't found a picture of his JJ in a circle mark to compare it to yours.[/QUOTE]
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