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Niederdonven - Café Gries-Funck ND
1927 year| Brass | 3.9 g | 24.06 mm |
| Location | Luxembourg |
|---|---|
| Type | Business tokens › Restaurant, bar, cafe and hotel tokens |
| Year | 1927 |
| Composition | Brass |
| Weight | 3.9 g |
| Diameter | 24.06 mm |
| Thickness | 1.25 mm |
| Shape | Round |
| Technique | Milled |
| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
| Demonetized | Yes |
| Updated | 2024-11-13 |
| Numista | N#304027 |
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| Rarity index | 97% |
Reverse
Large tankard in the field, grènetis
Lettering: anépigraphe
Edge
Plain
Comment
Token from Jean Gries and Anne Funck's establishment at 20, rue de romains in Niederdonven. The café featured a dance hall and a bowling alley, for which the present token was used.The couple took over the establishment in 1925 and ran it until 1937. That same year, Anne Funck applied for separation of property and took over the former Simon-Cruchten café in Neudorf/Luxembourg City in her own name. Jean Gries also settled in Neudorf and became a spice merchant. The Gries-Funck café in Niederdonven initially remained the property of the couple, but was managed from 1937 by Pierre Steines.
In February 1938, Jean Gries was forced to sell the business and its concession. The café and several fields were sold for 100,900 FLUX. On August 11, 1940, the lifeless body of Jean Gries was found by a fisherman in the Moselle near Mertert.
Following Jean Gries' death, widow Anne Funck takes over the Gries-Funck café in Niederdonven. According to R. Weiller, she ran the establishment until 1965. The establishment remained in the Gries family until very recently.
Weiller type token no. 11, whose intermediary house remains unknown, minted in 1927 at the Fisch & Cie workshop in Brussels. The widow Anne Funck had a second token struck in 1947. Pierre Steines-Lutgen, manager in 1937, also had a token struck in his name.
