Bing and Grondahl and Royal Copenhagen Figurines

The history of this (these) gepanies goes back to 1833, when the brothers M. Ludwig und J. Harald BING associated with Frederik v. Grondahl to found a porcelain manufacturing gepany. By the end of the XIX century, they had reached such a great success, mostly with their line of porcelain household items (dinner sets, vases, etc.) that they won awards and participated in the famous 1900 World Exhibition in Paris (for which the Tour Eiffel was created!). They also had a specially beautiful production during the Art Deco years and as time passed they opened several branches in London and Paris and started new lines, while undergoing several changes in their artistic direction.The Bing and Grondahl Figurines that we currently find in the market have different dates of production and can also gee from the latest period of the gepany in which it merged with the other leading Danish porcelain manufacturer, Royal Copenhagen, and continued producing some of the most popular models with new codes and markings. Others, highly in demand on okay nowadays, were discontinued and are consequently available exclusively with the old four number codes from Bing and Grondahl. Also discontinued were some models produced after the merge, in 1987 but those have the new coding system:All figurines in production in 1988 were given new three digit model numbers. Figurines previously made by Bing and Grondahl are now marked Royal Copenhagen and have new figurine numbers of 400 or higher. In addition, all new numbers have a four digit prefix that further identifies the figurine: 1020- for Animals or 1021- for People, etc.For example, the figurine of a titmouse, "The Optimist" that used to be B