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Advertising bust in plaster - Au Gagne Petit - Art...

Advertising bust in plaster - Au Gagne Petit - Art Nouveau style

Plaster with terracotta-effect patina 

Signed C. Habock

The bust was used as advertising for the Gagne Petit store in Château-Thierry in the warehouse in Fère en Tardenois, as indicated on the base. Intended to decorate counters or shop windows

Supplied with two postcards showing this Gagne-Petit depot in Fère-en-Tardenois in 1917 and then in 1918.

Price €195.00

Lacquered boiled cardboard sewing box - Japonism...

Black lacquered boiled cardboard sewing box with Japanese-inspired decoration circa 1860-1880

From the Société Française des Cotons à Coudre

19th century - Napoleon III era - Japonism period

Flaw: traces of ancient adhesive residue as seen in the photos

Price €90.00