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Abb. 114. Kolo Moser, Entwurf für eine Schachtel (Werknummer L 6); sign. MK-Monogramm; 
Stempel: Rosenmarke, 6; Höhe der Schachtel: 12,3 cm. - ÖMAK, Inv. K.l. 12564/6 
Fig. 114: Kolo Moser, design for a box (serial number L 6); signed MK monogram; stamp: Rose 
Mark, 6; height of box: 12.3 cm. - ÖMAK, Inv. K.l. 12564/6 
THE ROSE MARK 
A vertical rectangular frame encloses a flower whose severely stylized lines suggest a 
geometrical blossom in the upper field, and a bud-like form and a leaf in the lower field. 
Only the leaf is not composed of square or rectangular geometric lines, and the vertical 
stem is moved off-centre to accommodate it. 
A few days betöre the registration of the Rose Mark, the Wiener Werkstätte had applied 
for a trade licence for “goldsmithry, silversmithry and jewellery” (on 17th June 1903); the 
trade licence was issued on 7th August 1903. The same dates also apply for “girdlers 
and bronze workers”. It was only later that the Wiener Werkstätte received licences for 
all its other trades. 
In the chapter on “Legal Regulations and their Effect on the Form of the Wiener Werk 
stätte Trade Marks” I briefly examined the reason why the WW monogram and the desig- 
nation WIENER WERKSTÄTTE - under which the Company was subsequently to be- 
come famous - did not also become registered trade marks in the year 1903. We do not 
know exactly when the WW monogram in an oval was registered at the Assay Office, but 
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