Halbmond-Teppiche. Alfombras Media Luna. Crescent Carpets: Tapis du Croissant.

Oelsnitz, Germany.: Self published by Halbmond-Teppiche.. c.1931.. A beautifully produced Trade Catalogue. The title page decorated and elaborately stamped in gilt, with sepia toned photographic illustration of the factory pasted down and bordered in gilt and the company's registered trademark of a crescent moon, a star and the intertwined initials of Koch & te Kock. Text printed in Spanish, English and French. Unpaginated (26pp) with almost 200 coloured images each bordered with gilt together with some smaller black & white images pasted down on heavy black card with descriptions and decorations stamped in gilt. 43 x 32cm. Padded cloth covered boards with trademark logo at the top left and dated 1931 at the lower right, some glue marks and slight scuff marks to the rear board, bound with brass screws (one missing), otherwise an exceptional copy of a scarce item. In 1880 industrialists Karl W. Koch and Fritz te Kock founded Kock & te Kock carpet weaving mill in the city of Oelsnitz in Vogtland Saxony. The company quickly became the largest carpet producer in Germany, by 1900 the factory counted 1200 employees and by 1930 this had increased to 2500. Even Adolf Hitler 's Reichskanzelerei was entirely furnished with Halbmond carpets. The company is still active today. (VEB Halbmond-Teppiche.) .