Lukács László (szerk.): Märkte und Warenaustausch im Pannonischen Raum - István Király Múzeum közelményei. A. sorozat 28. (Székesfehérvár, 1988)
Lubise Kaspar: Wax-Chandlers and Honey-Bread Men in Karlovac at Fairs and Church Feasts Past and Present
Today only honey biscuits, MEDEN3ACI, and honey cakes. PI^KOTE, are still on the market, with more sugar and less honey in the pastry. The most characteristic product in the past and still today is a big biscuit in the form of a red coloured heart. There are also other pastry forms with ornaments designed in the form of leaves or flowers in a pink, light blue, yellow or green colour. There are little mirrors, pictures, and paper cuttings with love verses (or in the past with pious words) glued onto the biscuits. Today honeybread hearts are decorated with pictures of love scenes. Basides hearts, they also make pastry in the forms of babies, horses, horsemen, stars, watches and pistols (at the present time). During the period between the two World Wars all pastry products were made in smaller forms and were used as Christmas decorations. In the past few years they are again to be seen on the market, usually before Chr stmas, and they are also used at wedding feasts (as a wedding couple's gift for guests) and are now sold as souvenirs. We must also mention strings of biscuit beads, like rosaries, pastry in a round shape in a pink or yellow colour, threaded on a string along with a honey-bread cross or heart instead of a finishing bead. On stands together with honey-bread products we can see candles. Those are the candles that are poured in a mould, on the RING, or made in the machine called TUNKERICA. In the past they produced very thin candles in the so-called ZUGBANK technique. They stopped producing those candles, as well as the waxworks OPFER, in Karlovac a few years after the Second World War. Around 1901, they also produced tallow candles. In the past candles were made mostly of beeswax and to a lesser extent of paraffin wax, stearin and cerasin. Today only a few are made of beeswax, mainly for use in the Eastern Orthodox churches. All other candles are made of paraffin wax. The Lukinics were skilled masters at modelling candles of different kinds and forms. They provided candles for almost the whole of Croatia and part of Bosnia. Their candles also appeared in the Vatican, as proved by the fact that they received two papal certificates for the quality of candles. The first was dated 1913, by Pope P.P. Pio X, and the second dated 1913, by Pope P.P. Benedict XV. In 1906, at the Croato-Slavonian National Trade Exhibition in Zagreb, they also received a premium and a plaque for the high quality of their products. In 1911 at the International World Exhibition in Torino, as the only representative of this kind of trade from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, they received a gold and a silver medal. At this time their business was prospering so well that in 1913 they had a memorial printed on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of "The First Croatian Steam Factory of Wax-Candles'and Honey-Bread". Besides the previously mentioned ways of selling their products, the Lukinics also had a shop in the city. 80
