Showing posts with label tiny metal plates. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tiny metal plates. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

tiny platters

These small "advertising plates" were gifted to me by my sidekick, Monsieur L, who finds such minuscule things très adorable!... but they are well-made and substantial, in the sense that they represent the existence of once thriving establishments in a Paris [and Geneva] of another age...


"1822 BADAN 1922.....1822 GENEVE 1922" around the rim
[17 cm x 10 cm]















"Offert par la Maison Badan à l'occasion de son Centenaire" inscribed on the back

CAD/US$100/Euros70

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"AU BON ACCUEIL
Mon GAUCHER
98, RUE D'AUBERVILLIERS
PARIS 19. TEL NORD 69-64"
inscribed on the front
spelter
pre-1950's
[11.5 cm X 7.5 cm]

{SOLD}

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"ALIMENTATION - VINS
M. BEAUMARD
74, AVENUE GAMBETTA, 74
COURBEVOIE"
inscribed on the front
spelter painted silver
pre-1950's
[10 cm x 6.5 cm]

{SOLD}