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THORVALD GIESSING
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Grosserervirksomheden Thorvald Giessing
1877 - 1918
Nyhavn 31


Thorvald Giessing got procuration in the trading firm Munck & Co. in 1875 (not the same as Menck & Co) and established himself as a merchant in 1877 at the address Nyhavn 31 which  also housed Worm & Co. and Christian Gelert.

In the period 1866 - 1890 he had also procuration of the firm Meyer & Henckel's chemical factory untill they went bankrupt.

Th. Giessing had produced his own label on the matchboxes he sold and which he probably got produced by Nørrebros Tændstikfabrik.
1841 - Adolph Trier
1858 - Handelsfirmaet P. Sørensen & Co
1860 - J.T. Lange og E.V. Lange
1865 - Grosserer Henrik Georg Worm & Co
1866 - Grosserer Hans Bertram Fogtmann
1871 - Grosserer Menck & Co
1877 - Grosserer Thorvald Giessing
1878 - Grosserer Ernst Carl Kinzi & Co
1880 - Grosserer Peter Thorendahl
1884 - Grosserer Christian Gelert
1884 - Grosserer Alfred Georg Hassing
1884 - Handelsfirmaet Carl F. Nielsen & Co
1885 - Grosserer Hjalmar Hansen
1887 - Kjøbenhavns Bestillingskontor
1888 - Grosserer August Klingsey
1911 - Frederiksberg Bestillingskontor
1920 - Agenturcentralen
1920 - Harald Galster
1920 - Frederik Schindler´s Eftf.
1920 - Aage Seibæk
1920 - Strøm og Poulsen
1925 - Christian Madsen
1925 - A.P. Petersen
1926 - Bøggild & Jacobsen
1927 - Estonian Trading Agency
1927 - Husholdnings-Magasinet
1929 - Wedel & Larsen
1929 - Ørregaard & Olin
1931 - Asvarisch
1931 - Hans Beck
1939 - A. Bodenhoff´s Eftf.