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Visitors admire old trademarks at the
exhibition yesterday. (Photo: Shanghai Daily)
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BEIJING, Oct. 18 -- An exhibition featuring
industrial trademarks from old factories along the Suzhou Creek opened yesterday
at the cultural activity center of Changshou community in Putuo District, part
of the 2007 Putuo Culture and Arts Festival.
More than 300 exhibits are on show, including the
trademarks of 49 famous city industrial enterprises, all of them donated by 10
Shanghai collectors.
"Suzhou Creek in Putuo District is the origin of the
brilliance of Shanghai industry. More than 700 factories have been established
here, and especially between the end of the 19th century and 1930s, many
factories were built by Chinese industrialists," said Huang Zhenbing, vice
chairman of the Putuo District Collectors' Association, which co-organized the
exhibition.
Most of the exhibits were contributed by 50-year-old
Huang, who began collecting trademarks more than 30 years ago. All of the match
boxes and match trademarks in the exhibition were provided by him.
"I began collecting match boxes when I was a middle
school student," Huang said. He spends a good deal of his time traveling around
the city looking for treasures in curio markets.
Huang is especially proud of one of his contributions
- a bond receipt from the Dayouyu Oil Pressing Co Ltd which was established in
1889 and was the first national vegetable oil company in Shanghai.
Other items such as coins and paper money from more
than 50 years ago are intriguing visitors.
The first set of paper money issued soon after the
foundation of the People's Republic of China in 1949 was provided by Xu Henggao,
vice chairman of the Xuhui District Collectors' Association.
Xu is proud of his copy of a Washon electric fan. The
Washon Electric Fan Manufacturing Company was founded in 1916 and was the first
manufacturer of electric fans in China.
(Source: Shanghai Daily)
