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975 - Everybody smokes Merdjan cigarettes.
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Estimate €250 - €300
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Description
Everybody smokes Merdjan cigarettes. Chromolithograph, 41.4 x 57.8 cm, signed "H.L." in the stone (a few tears, edges slightly rubbed with minor tears, small folds). - Advertising print to promote Merdjan cigarettes using the figures of Leopold II and Franz Joseph I of Austria. The coveted product was awarded a gold medal in 1906 and had a pavilion at the Brussels World Fair in 1910. - Ref. Van den Abeele, Ekoki! La colonisation belge au Congo à travers l'image, reprod. p. 282. - Joint: 1. Dandrieu, O. - É[tablissemen]ts Cabrol & Baissette/ Fabrique de Fez. Paris, Impr. Joseph-Charles. Colour lithograph, 34.9 x 24.8 cm, signed in stone (2 suspension eyelets, small stains, small holes and scratches, slightly rubbed). Mounted on card. - 2 Richmond Tobacco. Legs, Cornet. Gouache, 14.5 x 16.4 cm, wove paper (soiled and rubbed, small tear). Advertising project with corrections in pencil (3 pcs)
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About the sale Prints & Drawings, Photographs & Comics, Rare Books, Atlases & Manuscripts, Surrealism, Congo, Erotica & Ballets russes
Auction location
Auction time 06/26/2026 at 1:00 PM
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