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5 unusual facts about Daler


Acrylic paint

Acrylic paints with gloss or matte finishes are common, although a satin (semi-matte) sheen is most common; some brands exhibit a range of finish (e.g., heavy-body paints from Golden, Liquitex, Winsor & Newton and Daler-Rowney).

Daler-Rowney

The process of manufacturing is divided into 3 different sites: the colours are produced at the headquarters, in Bracknell; the brushes are manufactured in La Romana, Dominican Republic; and all paper products are transformed in Wareham, United Kingdom.

In 1988, the company established distribution offices in Cranbury, New Jersey, USA and in 1994 "Robert Simmons" brand of artist’s brushes was bought.

George Rowney

George Rowney is a UK supplier of art materials, now merged with the Daler Board Company, to form Daler-Rowney Limited, based in Bracknell, Berkshire.

Jörgen Zoega

Jørgen Zoëga (December 20, 1755 – February 10, 1809) was a Danish archaeologist and numismatist; born at Daler near Tønder, near the west coast of northern Schleswig.


Carl Christoffer Gjörwell Sr.

In 1772 Gjörwell had to cede control of his bookstore to his creditors over an unpaid debt of 140,000 daler.

Notgeld

In Sweden, between 1715–1719, 42 million coins with the nominal value 1 daler silver were manufactured, but made in copper, with a much smaller metal value.

Princess Dorothea of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck

Officially pronounced dead, she went to Sweden, where she lived under the name Dorothea von Ziedewitz, first as the guest of Governor von Brehmen and then with his widow outside Kalmar, and finally with the Lewenhaupt family on Stäflö for a payment of §1000, where she died, aged seventy-six.

Raja Muhammad Akbar Khan

He befriended Colonel Mehmood Khan, Raja Sakhi Daler Khan and Raja Saif Ali Khan.

Willem Boy

However, in 1567 he had borrowed 1.000 daler for the project and when the bond proprietor in Antwerp was informed the statues happened to be in the city, she presented the bonds to the city magistrates and, as the defendant failed to present himself, the statues were confiscated.


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