SWETCO – A Beautiful Shop Front on the Bubbling Well Road
Posted: January 4th, 2022 | 3 Comments »Back in 2016 I posted a rather plain advertisement for (what I assumed to be) the rather uninspirignly named shop SWETCO, a silver and glass tableware company on the Bubbling Well Road (Nanjing West Road). However, it is a much more interesting store.
My thanks to Fred Schevtz who got in touch to let me know that his grandfather owned the store – Shvetz Co. became shortened to ‘Swetco’. He also kindly sent me the picture below with his mother – Eda (Dinaburg) Shvetz – and grandmother – Lisa Dinaburg – outside the gorgeous shopfront on the Bubbling Well Road. No precise date but this would be around 1940 or shortly thereafter.
I bought a cute white and lilac bowl with a diamond outline with swetco on the bottom of it would it be from there
got any photos? Perhaps that would help verifying?
we have a complete set of coffee and tea set of dragon moriage brown orange colour and bottom with swetco mark in red, more than 30 pieces. I wonder if is chinese or Japanese, because it was bought by my mother in law when she visit Shanghai maybe in 1930? we also found people selling same type of tea set but they claim is Japanese moriage without brand on bottom.
Just would like to understand more about the origin and is it valuable?
Thank You