Cozy, summer evening, pleasant silence garden, light coolness, the fragrance of greenery, harmoniously merging with the tart smell of burning wood of a samovar, which makes it harness to the table and brew amazing tea. Copper and brilliant "good friend" has long been attracted by warmth and hospitality. Having become a gross symbol of Russia, Samovar today performs an important mission, improving the interest in the cultural heritage, storing the wealth of traditions. How does the mysterious and unique story of a samovar begins?

The aggregate is obliged to form a tea for the brewing water. In ancient Russia, honey, kvass, beer, beer,, but "Eastern Guest", brought from China in the XVII century, violated the established traditions. The first tea party took place in 1638 at the royal court. Initially invigorating drink with a pleasant taste and aroma used only in noble houses, and then as a medicine. But from the beginning of the XIX century. Tea received the status of the Russian national drink.

How did the first samovars

Many legends go about who brought into Russia the first samovars. There is a version in which the wing aggregate brought from Holland Peter I. But most historians believe that Samovar is definitely invoking Russian invention, originating from ancient civilizations. In ancient Rome, archaeologists found devices for heating drinks or cooling - aupes (antique samovar), the constructive signs of which are similar to the Russian "tea machine". A similar device also existed in ancient China. Metal or porcelain-chogo, in which broth was served, also could well become a protopop of the Russian samovar. Although the homeland had devices applying for the role of Samovar's progenitor. Russian craftsmen slowly adapted to heat the water Kettle for a shot (drink from medicinal herbs, honey). No less interesting device was used in hiking conditions - self-kitchens, on which the food was preparing, and the water was boiled. It can be said for sure that by the end of the XVIII century. In Russia, the principle of operation of the coal samovar was finally formed, and the appearance of the aggregate became part of decorative and applied arts.

Samovar (XVIII-XIX century) for every taste and prosperity

As for the name "Samovar", whose eyelids are in the 40s of the XVIII century, the opinions of historians and here are divergent. After all, at that time, in written testimonies, a word for the Russian Water Heating Machine is first encountered. Some believe that the name comes from the idea - "cooks himself", others associate the origin with the Tatar word "Snabire", which means the kettle. Lovers of tea were often called Samovarniki, and instead of "drinking tea" used the verb "Self-worker".

Since in those days a samovar was made from copper, brass, according to some reports, the first samples appeared where the metalwork was developed, that is, in the Urals. Tula Blacksmith-Industrialist N. Demidov, having passed on the trip in 1701, together with a skillful copper business masters, founded the Sucunsky plant than put the Dynasty of the Urals "Tea Machines". Historical facts suggest that the Customs Service of Yekaterinburg in 1740. In the design of Demidov property, a copper samovar was recorded with a weighing of 16 pounds, its own factory work. And, although, there is still a dispute, where the first hot water vessel in Tula or in the Urals, there is an opinion that the production of samovarov was based at the same time.

It was also officially recorded that the first Tula samovar was implemented in 1778 by the brothers Lisitsyna in a small self-friendly factory, open on the basis of the ancient production of copper dishes. By the middle of the XIX century. There were no less than 80 active self-friendly enterprises in Tula, the products of which are highly appreciated, penetrating all the corners of Russia, and the city earned the status of the "self-worn capital."

Given that initially the price of a miracle unit was quite high, Samovar was considered dishes for the highest estates of society. Accordingly, the requirements for appearance were presented the highest. As a matter of life, the device had to satisfy the strict tastes of the aristocracy, fit into the style of interiors, which was often simply changed in architecture. Tula craftsmen invented more than a hundred species of a wide variety of forms: wine glasses, balls, vases, roosters, tulips and even steam locomotives. Samovar necessarily complemented by beautiful accessories, and the unit was often dressed for decoration, and to preserve the heat of the doll-boat.

Eminist artists, developing and painting, and the appearance of the aggregate were involved in working on the design of the Samovar. Silver and gold-plated samovars, created in the workshops of K. Faberge, are considered the most expensive, although folk craftsmen represented no less unique models from porcelain, glass, vines, wood. From all over the country and abroad, guests went to the Tula province, admire the masterpieces of masters and taste wonderful tea, brewed in Russian. Subsequently, self-equiping devices of more modest designs were included in the peasant life, where they were given the most honorable place, and Samovar himself was kept carefully and passed from generation to generation.

Self-stamps - trademarks of pre-revolutionary Russia

By the end of the XIX century. Dynasty of self-equipment - Batashev, Vorontsov, Koprzin, Tayle, and others appear. Over time of enterprises, has become so much that a peculiar trading sign was invented to determine the manufacturer. Which manufacturer belongs to the aggregate learned from the stigma of samovarov, which was approved by the government and mandatoryly marked the manufacturer. The varieties of factory stamps and stamps was impressive. In addition to the name of the manufacturer with geographic binding, the image of the stigma was developed individually. Exhibitions and expositions were also popular, where the best presented products "Samovar Kings" received awards, and samples of medals were decorated with Tulovo samovarov. All signs were used for promotional purposes for a statement about themselves in the commercial world, the formation of reputation, attract buyers and customers. And today, in order to correctly appreciate the vintage samovars, the presence of stamps and medals is necessarily taken into account.

Production was developing rapidly, the manufacturing process was technically improved and precisely in the pre-war period (until 1913) there is the greatest heyday of the self-scaffold. War and years of revolution, which economically exhausted the country, made their own adjustments. During this period, successfully developing production was interrupted and self-worn business was mainly due to the extensions and numerous artels in Tula. In 1918, the nationalization of self-equipment factories occurred. From the wreckage of private enterprises, state factories are formed. So the factory of V. S. Batashev (supplier of the Imperial Court), transferred to the Tula Patron Plant and produced samovars from 1920 to 1940 on the basis of the enterprise of the Shemarian brothers, was founded on the basis of the enterprise, V.I. Lenin (1922-1930) whose products were considered the best in Tula. Instead of medals and stamps of "manufacturers" on Soviet samovars began to put the stigma of state factories.

The new era of the Samovar Industry at the first stage is characterized by very low productivity, which, however, is justified by a low purchasing power, a very impoverished Russian people. But neither during the revolution, nor during the NEP period, the water-heating unit was not forgotten. And, although, the Soviet samovar for many standards was considered to be bourgeois excesses and the legacy of the past, the colorful unit survived, despite everything.

USSR - the homeland of electrical samovarov

After the Second World War, the Soviet plant "Stamp" (renamed from the Patron Plant) The only in Tula released samovars. Although the aggregates were produced at the Soviet time and at a plant of metal-finding in Sucsen, which offered a wide range of high demand: samovars, kettles, sugar bowls, trays, with beautiful artistic painting.

In 1956, the plant "Stamp" began the release of electrical samovars who came to the shift of heat (coal) models. Samovars of the USSR with a heat electron heater, plastic handles and an improvised pipe no longer sang in three different registers. And, although, according to experts, electricity ruined the original aggregates, turning them into banal boiling holders, the "stamp" plant was considered a prestigious enterprise that produces more than a million copies per year and flourishing until the beginning of the 90s. Assortment had combined samovars with high consumer qualities. At the end of the twentieth century Samovar, like all the legacy of the Great Epoch, including porcelain figurines, began to go into oblivion, and electric kettles began to host in the kitchens. However, the production of samovarov was completely stopped.

The modern technology of making samovarov received a second breathing and practically did not change, while maintaining the secrets of self-friendly craft. Within a few centuries, Tula samovar is the center of the festive feast and an indispensable attribute of tea drinking in the best Russian traditions. And today, swimming a handsome self-singer, cups with saucers, glasses with cupcakers, gingerbread and beams, recreate an amazing atmosphere, filling with warmth and comfort home and having a mental conversation.

The cost of a samovar depends on its form, the presence of medals and stamps, whether Samovar was donated by Nikolai II Persian Shah (that is, history). How much will add to the cost of an antique samovar each element - examples of calculation.

If someone has already asked earlier by this issue, then the first thing about the Internet users are resorted to - this is the study of self-friendly forums, collectors' blogs and monitoring prices in self-levels. There it turns out that so far there is no single catalog and generally accepted prices for vintage samovars and is unlikely to appear for obvious reasons: each samovar released to the revolution is unique. Averaging, "hairstyle under one comb" Antique samovars do not get due to many factors.

What affects the cost of an old (antique) samovar:

• variety of medals and stamps of manufacturers and their safety;

• originality of the assembly;

• external and inner view of samovar details;

• the shape of the samovar and its weight and size;

• the quality of self-friendly restoration and much more.

The basis for evaluating an old samovar

Today we will reveal the secret techniques for evaluating samovars that use themselves. But at the same time, do not make them consider them the only right, it is only our personal experience (for 10 years our workshop).

The most common antique samovar and the database for assessing - "Bank" Batashev

With our calculations, we were repelled from the value of the classic Samovar of the "Bank" form of production of the factory of Vasily Batashev at 7 l ~ 1900-1906 G.V. In our practice, this is one of the most popular and popular models, most often found in stores and private sellers.

It should be borne in mind that the cost of a renovated samovar depends on the personal history of a particular samovar. The same samovar can cost from 25 to 50 thousand rubles. For example, the torn Firka of Samovar adds 3-5 thousand rubles to its price. So, we will appreciate one samovar.

The basic value of the samovar (in the photo) in very good condition, the form is "bank". With medals of the imperial exhibitions and stamps of Nicholas II. The price of such a samovar is 25,000 rubles.

What increases the cost of antique samovar:

Availability of medals and stamps

Medals and brand stamps of the manufacturer (can be on all elements, and not only on the main part). Personal samovars are more expensive. For example, we had a samovar, presented by Persian Shah's personally Nikolai II. + 50-100% (depending on the number and rarity producers)

Samovar with stigma, medals, the name of the inscription can be more expensive than almost twice!

Self-shape

If you take the bank to the bank of Batashev as a basis, then more rare forms of vintage samovarov increase the cost of at least a third, and even three times. Below examples, as different forms of samovarov affect the price:

The form of "repka" adds to the cost of an ancient samovar + 30 + 70%

Antique samovar-repka Vorontsova

Pros to value
The form	"Bank" with faces	+20-50%
"Glass"	+30-70%
"Vase"	+100-200%
"Ball"	+100-150%
"Egg"	+150-200%
"Flashlight"	+100-150%
Unusual and non-standard elements	Twisted, forged, cast in the form of animals, etc.	+30-70%
The size	Samovars are less than 3 liters, and more than 12 are valued above, the price is proportional to the decrease or increase in size. Cheapest banks 5-8 liters,	+30-100%
Material	Disease	+ 200-500% less often up to 700-1000%
Red brass	+20-40%
Melchior	+40-80%
Nickel	+20-30%
Cons price
Samovar is not cleaned (not restored)	Under the thick layer of scale, cracks can be hidden, mechanical damage to the housing and pipes, as well as when removing the scale, the native layer of the food tin can come together - it will have to overdo it.	-20-40%
Non-standard elements (or Novodeli)	Depending on the number	-20-70%
Lack of some elements	Depending on the number of lost elements	-10-50%
Celesties (rose elements)	Depending on the possibilities of recovery, from the form of a samovar (on faceted forms, as well as on complex forms: a ball, an egg, a flashlight is very difficult to make richtovka)	-30-60%
From the thickness of the metal and the degree of wear of the heat pipe	Thin metal, as well as the rusty or burned tube affect the complexity of restoration	-10-30%

Most often, people resort to the assessment of the samovar due to the following situations:
- Found old Samovar In the attic, in Sarajka, in the barn. In 90% of cases it will be a village Samovar- "Bank". The price after all "minuses" will be about 1000-1500 rubles

- accepted as a gift collective Samovar Unusual shape with medals. In this loud, it can cost from 30 to 100 thousand rubles.

- bought (or plan to buy) renovated with the help of spare parts a common pump "Bank" with stamps. Such an undertaking can cost from 25 thousand rubles.

Please note that the word "renovated" does not mean that Samovar simply fined Vallaska. It is understood as a long and painstaking process for the restoration of the initial species. Naturally, after restoration, it is possible to use a samovar on purpose and you need!

Andrei Soly, Alexey Oreshkin

How to find out in what year is Samovar made?

Dear and modern samovars

The cost of samovar and the year of its release is not always directly related. There are samovars of a recent release, for example, 1990 even more modern years, for example, 2005 - 2018-x, while worth 100 - 150 thousand rubles. At the same time, they are richly decorated, a variety of overhead details, but the main thing in these samovars are not decoration, but for whom they were intended. There are two types of such samovarov. Samovar expensive, but presented - this is for example Samovar Tula craftsman Vladimir Bashkina, given to Holiness Patriarch of All Russia Alexy II.

And samovars are also expensive, but for which rather big money is paid - these are exclusive samovars of the plant production stamp donated by Vladimir Putin. All other samovars can also cost 50 thousand and even 500 thousand, such as Samovar Nazar Lisitsyn 1820s - 1830s, belonging to Alexei Borisovich Miller, the head of Gazprom.

And yet there is one distinguishing feature that distinguishes them from modern samovars of just one stamp plant - the presence in the design of samovarov stamped, and not cast details. How to find out the year of the release of a samovar of the plant stamp? Very simply - Samovar 60s 60s - certainly stands on a stamped basis. This fashion appeared from the simplification of the structure, the desire to minimize costs. Fashion appeared in the early 1950s, to a lesser extent in the mid-1930s. All mass samovars are standing on stamped bases.

Factory Stamp them. Wivnikov revived after the war, the production of samovars in 1949, it was this date that was fixed on the overwhelming majority of post-war samovarov. In addition, these samovars, the release date of which is unknown, but with a high probability it is in 1949, marked in the form of a star. According to one version, such samovars, it was with a star, gave the participants of the Great Patriotic War, as premium. They are made more qualitatively than ordinary serial samovars - they have a cast base, the characteristic shape of the crane, often cast a voucher, in general the sranovar is made for a long time, and it will work for many years as old pre-revolutionary samovars.

At the samovars, the time of the NEP, unlike the first post-war, one way or another there is a sign of a sickle and hammer.

Does the cost of samovar nickelting increases?

In the 1880s, copper and brass samovars began nickelte. Nickel - colored metal yellowish-white color with strong glitter. In the air it will not fade, it is not oxidized in its pure form. Nickel was opened in the XVIII century, but its wide industrial use began in the second half of the XIX century. Nickelting of samovarov was carried out in protective and decorative purposes. The thin layer of nickel defended the brass surface of the samovar, giving him an elegant, festive look. In addition, such samovars did not need cleaning, especially since different mixtures could simply trim the thin protective layer.

In Soviet times, almost all, 95% of samovarov were produced nickel-plated. Nickelting increases the cost of the percentage of interest by 10-20, but this applies only to tsarist samovans with a native, which has been preserved by Nickel until 1917. Just because there are few such samovars. The cost of Soviet samovarov nickel floor, on the contrary, lowers. Especially poorly preserved. Often, the nickelock was applied to samovars subsequently, for example, at the royal samovar, during the time of mass self-repair. She, of course, improved the appearance of Samovar, but the price of a partial loss of stamps, sometimes until the full loss. Such samovars are very well noticeable.

Over the ages of one and a half years, samovars were an integral part of Russian life. They are a device for boiling water and cooking tea. Initially, the water in them was heated internal furnace, which was a high tube filled with wooded coals. A little later, kerosene, electric and other types of samovarov appeared. Currently, they are almost universally ousted by teapots.

Vintage samovars: a little story

Today, these vintage devices with exquisite decoration are popular among collectors and simply true connoisseurs.

In Russia, the tradition of tea drinking, as you know, came from the east, where special dishes existed for the preparation of tea drinks. But the samovar in the form of all of us the usual device came up with Russian masters.

The exact date of such products is difficult to call, but the peak of their popularity is considered to be the 19th century. At this time, many factories were opened throughout the country producing such products. But among them, the masters of Tula became especially famous. Such manufacturers, like Lisitsyn, Kapourzins, Lomov, Shemarins, Mountains, Vorontsov, Batashev, Tayle, and many others, were known both in Russia and in Europe.

The first manufacturers of samovarov in Tula were the brothers of Lisicins, which at the end of the 18th century opened a self-friendly institution. Their products were famous for their exquisite forms. Ancient Tula samovari vyovna is well known, which at the time produced about 1000 products per year.

As a rule, producing products were engaged in the whole family, and their experience and tools were inherited. That is why on one product could be a few brand masters. Tula samovars were made not only directly in Tula itself, but also in its surroundings, but it did not bother to call all samovars from these places to Tula.

For the manufacture, copper was originally used (more precisely the alloy of copper with zinc). But since it was accepted by these products to paint to shine, the copper samovar was very quickly faced. After some time, the masters began to use brass and Melchior.

Types of designs

By the water heating method, vintage samovars are divided into:

• Heavy (coal, wood), from which the story of a self-friendly behavior began. For water heating, you can use almost any wood combustible materials (coal, wood, bumps, and so on).
• Electric. Water is heated using the heating element. The main advantage is the lack of smoke and soot.
• Combined, combining two types of water heating - from electricity and heat combusting fuel heat.

At the turn of the XIX-XX century, new types of samovarov began to be issued: kerosene, "Parichko" products and copper appliances of blueberry with a side pipe.

Also, vintage samovars vary in shape. Banks are considered the most cheap, then ascending price glass, ball and further vase, egg.

Volume of samovarov

These devices differ in litter.

The most running vintage samovars - coal from 3 to 7 liters. Products less than 3 liters are usually worth more than their large analogues, because they are more difficult to manufacture and are less common.

Electric samovars are from 1.5 to 3 liters. Large sizes are quite rare.

Material for manufacture

Samovars are made from different materials. The most common are brass products, as well as from copper, Melchior and Tompaka.

Copper samovars were considered festive, so they are the most expensive. Now they are sold mainly brass with copper coating products, but you can find an old copper samovar. It is most often found in brass gold-colored devices (they look very smart, but need careful care of their surface) and brass with nickel-plated coating (they have silver color, they look beautiful, but do not require special care).

Brass samovars with painting are also widespread.

Heavy samovara

From the point of view of antique value, the most attractiveness is precisely samovars on the corner, where the main fuel is coal. Because in those days, the carbon carbon was far from all, firewood was often used for the furnace, which were laid in the inner tube.

Ancient samovars on firewood are equally in demand in antiques. Visually from coal counterparts, they differ little. But the true connoisseurs of antiquity will differ instantly.

Genuine products of the 17th - early 19th centuries have the greatest value, each of which is unique in its own way and is the work of art. The standard of the highest quality of an old samovar is the Master Master Stamp.

Advantages and disadvantages of wood samovarov

These are real vintage samovars, and, it means, you can touch the real Russian tradition of tea drinking, which is almost two hundred years. Plus heat products - the heated water in them slower cools.

Among the disadvantages can be allocated:

1) Heavy samovars are vintage (the prices for them are different) you need to heat when they are filled with completely water. If this rule does not observe, they can disperse. Therefore, if necessary, in the cooled device, warm the water must be addicted to the liquid, and then warm it up. However, it is not easy to melt the extinct samovar, therefore, most likely, you will have to not add, and drain the water, remove the old fuel, pour water and melt again.

2) You can remove coal samovars in open areas, or the pipe insert into a special exhaust.

3) Heavy samovars are much more expensive than those electrical.

Electric samovaras

These products came to replace the heat equivals already in the era of developed socialism. In their design, they are arranged much easier and do not have the traditional sophistication of forms and elements. That is why electrical samovars have a smallest collection value.

Advantages and disadvantages of electrical samovarov

Electrical options are more convenient to warm up, and with any volume of water (only a TEN was covered). They can be used in closed rooms. Most of the electric belongs have a thermal switch.

The main disadvantage of electrical samovar is that it is not a samovar, but rather an electrical focus of non-standard form. Here you can not feel the smell of cones or apple branches. After heating, it will cool the heat faster, because inside it there is no slowly cooled coal. They can not be enjoyed in nature, since there is no electricity.

Combined vintage samovara

Because progress does not stand still, the purchase of a self-comberized samovar will be a very successful acquisition that combines the advantages of heat and electrical fellow. It is possible to melt such a device with firewood, and when the water will cool, warm it with electricity. You can use it both in nature and indoors.

The only minus of combined samovarov is their value, which is higher and wood, and the electrical variant of this volume and form.

How much is an old samovar?

Those who wish to have an old samovar in their home without any problems can purchase it on an antique market, which very successfully supplies all those who want by such products, which differ in appearance, quality, artistic merit, manufacturing time, volume and price. Simple buyers, in contrast to collectors, understand all the subtleties is quite difficult, although sometimes even collectors do not know how to evaluate this or that product. After all, for example, only one Tula factory V. S. Batashev has manufactured more than 50 forms and sizes of various samovars, and if you also consider other manufacturers, it is not that it just becomes defining the price of this popular product.

As we have already said, the cost of vintage samovarov can be the most different, which depends on the set of factors. And first of all, the age of the product is important here (than it is older, the more valuable). For example, a device that is released in the royal times is recently valued more than Soviet counterparts.

An important value also has the uniqueness of the samovar. Exclusive things, handmade always evaluated high enough, and if the age of the product is solid, then this is no doubt antiques. This can be said about form.

Another criterion affecting the price of the samovar is the fame of the manufacturer's factory, the presence of the manufacturer's stamp is either the branding of the manufacturer. So, for example, a samovar vintage with medals is much more expensive. In addition, the preservation and artistic value of decorative elements is important.

All samovars can be divided into 3 categories:

1. Vintage samovars (the prices for them are different). They are usually made at the highest artistic level and are made of expensive material. At the antique market, such copies are infrequently falling, and the value here determines, as a rule, the seller. The buyer remains either purchased for this price, or to search at a different price. The cost of such a product comes to several tens of thousands of dollars.
2. This category includes products that have good artistic elaboration, non-standard shape covered with silver. There are much more such samovars in the market, so the seller with the buyer can agree in the price. Range prices ranges within 10 thousand dollars.
3. This category includes massively manufactured products, ordinary and purely functional. The price of such a product proposes, as a rule, the buyer. Cost such samovars can approximately $ 500.

Nowadays, the vintage samovars are experiencing their second birth, being the most popular view of antique samovarov. The material culture of the past finds a hot response in the hearts of modern people. And it's not just a "fashion to ancient". By touching the "representatives" of domestic self-friendly production, collectors and just lovers are trying to penetrate the spirit of the past times and restore the connection of the past with the future to respond to a difficult question - who we, from where and where we go. Probably, many would like to learn more about such a beautiful, useful and popular from our ancestors to life as a samovar. And the most observant go further in the study of the "self-" history and are interested in such a question as the meaning of medals on antique samovars.

Medals - quality recognition

In industry, as in other areas of life, progress occurs due to the competitive spirit, which is a locomotive for all human achievements. The Russian self-equipment, originating in small handicraft workshops, during the 19th century committed his victorious procession not only in their native country, but also conquered the markets of many countries of the world. Samovar became known in European countries as a beautiful, original and functional subject of high quality life, made with great skill and love, and in a broader sense he symbolized Russia with its rich and distinctive culture.

The main sign of the quality of the products of self-service companies, along with a stigm of a particular factory brand in the form of medals. It was not easy to earn the right to such a sign, because the medals were awarded to the goods-winners of industrial competitions of different levels - exhibitions. Factory whose products often turned out to be among the winners at exhibitions, domestic and international, decorated samovars received by the rewards. Medals were to testify to the quality of self-known models and attract the attention of buyers.

According to medals on antique samovars, it is possible to study the history of domestic self-equipment, as there are many information about industrial exhibitions, in which the products of famous brands participated. The stamp of medals and the manufacturer's name was placed on the housing, lid or samovar pallet. It was applied with a special cast-iron stamp heating to the necessary temperature and pressed to the hot surface with a hammer impact. The depth of thettice could not be too deep, so it was erased over time if Samovar was cleaned with sand.

The application of medals and stamp with the names of the factory names is strictly regulated by the state to eliminate the possibility of fake. The manufacturer to get the right to somehow stigma, was to go through the procedure of government registration, otherwise he threatened a large fine or imprisonment.

What medals on antique samovar are better?

The advantage of medals on antique samovars depended on the level of an industrial exhibition or fair, where the award was awarded. In the context of the dissemination of self-equipment throughout Russia, a large number of similar competitions were carried out in the regions. Awards received by manufacturers at local exhibition fairs were not valued too high. A completely different level is the medals of international or All-Russian exhibitions. Products participating in such competitions should have been a rigorous selection providing high quality manufacturing and decoration of goods. Companies that have received the right to represent samovars at high-level exhibitions, as a rule, had products of the author's work of famous masters. It was most honorable to have awards that gave the factors a high status of suppliers of the royal yard. Such samovars willingly bought not only in Russia, but also in foreign fairs.

Modern collectors of antiques draw attention to the "dignity" of medals, which consists in the level of exhibitions, at which the Russian "Tea Machine" visited. The most valuable are samovars, on which there are medals from international exhibitions. The total number of medals also talks about the high quality of the product and the respectable manufacturer. Specialists call among the most expensive antique samovars, having a stamp Factory of Dubinin, Kondratieva, Sevryugin. Much value is collective and exhibition samples of Samovar companies Tayle, Batasha and Lisicin.



Stamps and medals on samovars

Historians cannot definitely indicate the date of production of the first samovar and stamps on it. Most often argue that the product was made by gunsmiths in the 17th century. Samovar turned out to be an expensive subject, special art was required for its production, so the masters necessarily put the marks about the place and the name of the manufacturer.

History of the development of self-equipment

The first labels on samovars were put on handicraft masters. As a rule, it was an inscription in the form of inscriptions. The manufacturer pointed his surname, name and city or village. In the 19th century, the stigma was branded designation. The impression contained information about the place of release, the factories, the wizard and the order for which Samovar was made. In addition, the most famous and large manufacturers put out the impression of awards assigned to their products at self-exhibition.

Own stimples put such well-known manufacturers like Lomoms, Lisitsyna, Morozov, Kapourzins and, of course, Batashev. Official labels were registered by the Government of the country.

Back in the nineteenth century appeared pseuddali. They were put in order to increase the value of samovarov, issued in handicrafts. It was a kind of falsification. Today, fakes are also found.

Images on the stamps

The first stamps and emblems, affiliated on samovars, were an impression of the name of the factory in the original frame. With the advent of large plants on the stamps, the images of the emblems of famous surnames began to appear. A vivid example of such an option is the stamp of bathev. At the Samovars, Teile engraved the gun, which was considered a reminder that production began with weapons.

Symbols of well-known manufacturers, the quality of the products of which was confirmed at numerous exhibitions and noted by experts, were often formed. Falsifiers used the most different techniques. For example, a sign of counterfeit is considered:

an image resembling a state coat of arms with significant deviations;

specifying known last names with the addition of the "Refreaming" inscriptions, the "follower" (as a rule, the surname of the true manufacturer specifically rubbed or imprinted with small letters).

The most valuable samovas with stigma

Antique samovars have a high cost. The price of the product affects:

the date of manufacture and stagnation of the brand (original products with fewer stamps are made earlier than the products of the same manufacturer with numerous premium signs);

the character of the impression (cost depends on the manufacturer);

status stimples (attention deserved precisely readable).

According to collectors, the most valuable today are samovars with stigma of Dubinin factories, Kondratyev, Sevryugina, as well as collectible and exhibition works of famous Batashev factories, Tayle, Lisicini.