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Aug.
Oehler
(Offenbch)
45-80 60
“ 55 55 55
1866
June Poirrier 125
(violet
de Paris)
July Imbert Hofmann’s
1867 10-50 30-250 35-75
60 Hofmann’s
soluble
Sources: Theodore Chateau, Nouveau Manuel Complet Theorique et Pratique de la
Fabrication et de I Emploi des Couleurs d’Aniline 2 vols. (Paris, 1868), vol 2, pp 450-462.
Moniteur Scientifique, 2 (1 November 1859):403. Le Teinturier Universal, 1861-1863,
inclusive.
Notes to Table 1: The aniline blues listed for the early part of 1861 may have been blue
shades of red Aniline purple == mauve (UK) = harmaline (France), etc. Aniline red =
magenta (UK) = fuchsine (France), etc. Wide price variations in aniline blues (phenylated
reds) and violets (alkylated reds) arose from introduction of improved products, especially
the water soluble varieties. Qualities within a given range were designated by additions of
capital B’s after the name of the dye. Thus, blue BBBB was superior to Blue BBB Aniline
greens were made by the reaction of aldehydes on aniline red, and were especially
important products for Usebe-Cherpin, Muller-Pack and Meister, Lucius & Co. from 1864. In
August 1864, green was quoted at 25 fr per kg, probably of poor quality. By August of the
following year a superior product was fetching 350 . fr per kg Aniline yellow was quoted at
400 fr per kg in June 1864, and 250-300 fr per kg in November 1864. In 1867, La
Fuchsine’s “Durand” yellows, browns, etc. were 15-30 fr per kg. L. Durand was one of the
company’s chemists and later became a partner in Durand & Huguenin. Prices in Germany
in 1860 revealed that aniline purple was the equivalent of about 1,250 fr per kg, and aniline
red about 700 fr per kg.
The rise of the German and Swiss dye industries
German manufacturers of aniline dyes become significant in the early 1860s Swiss
dye-making was assisted by the patent monopoly in France.