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Thanks, khaos: things are finding some order.

Just for the record, the map linked in the first post (dating 1870) can be used to locate Marburg, in the region called Styria (close to "Austria",...

The info came from a modern Swaty catalogue available online. The italian catalogue is different from the english one:

English catalogue: Grinding weels factory Swaty was established by chemist...

Reading the full thread you will find where it says that the first factory was opened in Slovenia in 1879.

You forgot that in 1879 the first factory opened in Slovenia.

Well, one thing is to own the information and different is to put the info in the right place or "translate" it for practical purposes. This is the right place for that info and that is its...

Zino Davidoff, member of the italian forum, put to my attention some instructions originally coming with a Swaty hone and available online. I read as follow:

[...] Since the decease of the...

Also difference could be made between where the company was "registered" (maybe at one time near Wien) and were hones were produced. I expect that mentioning Wien in time of Austrian domination or to...

Maybe. But the term Yugoslavia (Kraljevina Jugoslavija) officially started to be used only in 1928, so things are a bit more complicated than expected.

Just a short note. I was trying to understand something more about Swaty provenance, starting from what you can read on the hone: sometime Austria, sometime Yugoslavia. I think that this doesn't...