The World's Columbian Exposition 1893. Chicago, U.S.A. 1893
Official Catalogue With Illustrations issued by the Royal Danish Commission

26 DENMARK DEPARTMENT E. MINES, MINING AND METALLURGY. GROUP XLIV. BUILDING STONES, MARBLES, ORNAMENTAL STONES AND QUARRY PRODUCTS. Class 296. Nielsens mekaniske Stenhuggeri (Nielsen’s stone-cutting Works), 44 Nørrebrogade, Copenhagen: Polished green granite Font with unpolished hewn ornaments, framed by golden lines ; polished red granite Vase. Established 1820. GROUP XLVII. LIMESTONE, CEMENTS, AND ARTIFICIAL STONE. Class 309. Faxe Kalkbrud, Aktieselskab (Faxe Lime-quarry, lim.), Faxe: Raw limestone. The quarry has been worked for more than 400 years; on a larger scale, however, for the last forty years only. The lime is a fine and pure coral-rag containing about 99 p. c. carbonate of lime. It is used for lime- burning, building material and in chemical Works, especially in all the sul- phite paper-pulp manufactories of the Scandinavian countries. Yearly export about 90000 tons of lime-stone. Highest prize at the exposition at Copen- hagen 1888. STEVNS Klint (Stevns cliff) represented by the Joint agency for Faxe-Linhamn lime-quarries, 51 Studiestræde, Copenhagen: Obelisk of chalk stone with samples of common chalk, grey chalk for manufacturing purpose, whitening, flint, and flint pebbles. Chalk stone from Stevns cliff was used as building material already during the early Middle ages; nowadays it is used mainly for the embellish-