Live auction - Lot 122
Huntley & Palmers Biscuits.
[England], s.n., end 19th c
€ 600 / 700
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Lot description
Chromolith., vellum 55 x 75 cm; not signed (central tear without lack of paper, central hole restored on verso, some marg. defects, tears and water stains, verso locally strengthened and heavily brown.).
One of the numerous advertisements for the renowned Reading biscuits factory founded in 1822, this one representing an Oriental scene: a young boy and 3 women dressed in Turkish fashion talking leisurely on a terrace roof; in the foreground a nicely decorated biscuit tin.