Half-brother of Guillaume, Louis Wolfers had already spent some time in Brussels from 25 March 1842.
Returning to Germany before 1846, he returned to Brussels on 22nd June 1847.
According to a police report, "he was a jeweler , without works, and without means of existence.
His brother provided it, while waiting for him to be placed "(AVB, Police Fund, 362 MM).
One can admit that he worked as a companion at Guillaume's.
Louis was inscribed as a goldsmith and as a jeweler-maker in the Rue de la Putterie, 70,
on September 2, 1852, at the provincial register under No. 415, and on September 7 in the communal register under No. 185.
Thanks to a sum of 2,000 thaler-gold, inherited from his father, who had just died,
Louis had been able to rent a building in the rue des Longs Chariots, 17 (no. 23 from 1866), where he set up his goldsmith workshop.
He did not have a retail store, and was making for merchants.
Its activity developed very well, enabling it to reach the level of Auguste Dufour in manufacturing.
The punch of Louis, deposited in 1852, a head of wild boar with the letter W above, was inscribed in the copper plate No. 4, case 72
After the abolition of the state's surveillance of the quality of the precious metals and the suppression of the removal of the pins in 1868, Louis Wolfers retained his punch, albeit with a few modifications
Source: Dictionnaire de Orfèvres de Bruxelles au XIXᵉ siècle)
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