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Following his return, the journeyman had to work for a number of years in the town where he intended to settle before he could ask a master of his craft to submit for him an application to become a master. If admitted to the process he had to build his Meisterstück or masterpiece (generally required since the middle of the fifteenth century) at his own expense, pay his Discount Tiffany Sets fee to the citv and his dues to the Zunft, show that he owned a house or had enough money to purchase one, that he owned all necessary tools and, equally important, was of legitimate and honorable birth: no child of dishonorable parents would ever be permitted into a Zunft. Only if all these requirements were met would the journeyman receive his Meisterbrief, the document certifying that he joined the highest echelons of his craft. Only then could he also apply for a marriage permit.

Throughout the Middle Ages and into the sixteenth century, the Zunftsystem functioned more or less as intended in the interest of both producers as well as consumers. However, the system had always Discount Tiffany Rings open to, and almost invited, abuse, and by the early sixteenth century, abuse such as nepotism had reached such heights that the Emperor and his Estates passed laws addressing the worst abuses in 1530. Without the power or political will to enforce these regulations, all the Empire could do was repeat them in 1548, 1551, 1559, 1570, 1571, 1577, 1654, 1667, and 1672. By Discount Tiffany Pendantstime the Empire published its Handwerksordnung of 1731, its member states such as Prussia (1734 to 1737) were taking matters into their own hands as well. The economic system of mercantilism instituted statewide economic policies and programs while placing the interests of the state above those of the individual craftsman.

While in states such as Prussia the Zunft retained some of its regulatory functions for its members, central administrative organs of the state came to regulate ever more the economic life of the state. Concurrently it created large-scale Manufacturen with dozens of employees outside of, and in open conflict with, the age-old Zunftsystem to produce for export, colonial trade, and to meet the Discount Tiffany Notes increasing and large-scale demands of the military. This process that transformed the pre-1789 standische Gesellschaft, the tightly ordered and controlled society based on Estates, first into the pre-industrial and then the free enterprise, capitalist society of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was beginning to take off on the eve of the French Revolution.The end for the Zunftsystem in Germany came with the armies of Napoleon.