Writing Folio (or Blotter) Promotion with Chinese-style Faux Lacquer (Faux Mother-of-Pearl and Paper Mache Boards), Produced by F. Hoffmann-La Roche & Cie

F. Hoffmann-La Roche & Cie

Editore: Paris

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Handsome folder promoting opium as a pharmaceutical! N.d., circa 1900 to 1910. 30 by 23 cm. Tabularly-presented text is on the endpapers, with four leaves of heavy blank yellow paper bound in by string. On the two page table of particular interest, in our view, is the drug called "Pantopon 'Roche'" whose composition is "Opium Total". Other drugs, we note, contain "barbiturate." The opium-connection might explain the Chinoiserie decoration of the binder. Of course, the boards are also very decorative, making this binder a prized promotional giveaway, which we assume it would have been to the company's customers and other contacts. The Basel-based Hoffmann La Roche was founded in 1896 and soon had offices in Paris. It remains to this day a pharmaceutical giant. Minor surface loss to the black faux lacquer surface along the edges. Ink and pencil marks abounding on the yellow blanks, suggesting these were used as blotter paper. Minor loss and looseness to the endpaper at the spine.

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• Titolo: Writing Folio (or Blotter) Promotion with Chinese-style Faux Lacquer (Faux Mother-of-Pearl and Paper Mache Boards), Produced by F. Hoffmann-La Roche & Cie
• Editore: Paris
• Rilegatura: Faux Lacquer
• Condizione: Very Good Minus
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Medicine