Eau de Cologne (Kölnisches Wasser) / by the most ancient distiller Johann Maria Farina.

  • Farina, Johann Maria.
Date:
1863
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Eau de Cologne (Kölnisches Wasser) / by the most ancient distiller Johann Maria Farina. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The genuineness and excellence of my Eau de Cologne were acknowledged at the first Exhibition in London 1851, by the Prize Jury, who awarded to it a Prize Medal, it also found the same distinction at the international Exhibition of Industry in New-York of the year 1853. The most recent proofs of the excellence, good quality and ge¬ nuineness of my Eau de Cologne {in spite of numerous other manu¬ factures) will be found by the Prize-Jury of the Great Exhibition of Industry of ail nations in London 1862, awarding to it the Prize- Medal, the highest prize, by which my genuine Eau de Cologne (Kol- nisches Wasser) manufactured by myself, after the original recipe of the inventor, one of my ancestors, was distinguished, in the most laudable manner, and as it is said in the official return: „Ry reason of its excellent qualities**. Likewise to my celebrated manufacture was awarded a Medal of the Exhibition at Oporto in the year 1865, the highest distinction, which Eau de Cologne obtained. On account of the excellent qualities of my Eau de Cologne not only numerous prize-medals have been awarded to it by the jurors of the Exhibitions of all nations at London 1851, New- York 1853, London 1862 and at Oporto 1865, but also His Majesty Napoleon III., Emperor of the Erench, at the Inter¬ national Exhibition of Paris 1867^ in order to furnish me with a further proof of his approval and patronage, appointed me according to letters patent of Novr. ijth, 1867, purveyor to his Imperial Court. The Prize-Jury also, of the Exhibition at Cordova (Argentine Republic) in 1871, pronounced my Eau de Cologne on account of its superior quality, by far the best of all similar existing perfumes, and confirmed their decision by awarding me their only and highest prize, the Silver Medal. The same took place on the great exhibitions at Vienna 1873, then at Santiago 1875 at Philadelphia 1876 and at Cape
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