Live auction - Lot 487
[Food]
Huntley & Palmers Biscuits.
[England], s.n., end 19th c
Hammer price: €
400
€ 450 / 500
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Lot description
Chromolith., 55 x 75 cm, unsigned (central tear, pinhole restored on verso, some marg. def.).
One of the numerous advertisements for the renowned Reading biscuits factory founded in 1822, this one represents 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.
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