Vittel 1930

Societe Generale des Eaux Minerales de Vittel, 1930. Card backing. Envelope. Very Good. Booklet, 16mo. 9.5 cm tall, and opened to 12.5 cm wide. The card base is slightly larger, with feet and a top piece that from top to bottom measure 12.5 cm. The feet look like tabs if one focuses only on them, but gazing at the whole, one sees they are meant, with the top piece, to mimic an easel upon which the booklet rests. In the back of the card is a metal support which was meant to be pulled out to allow for the whole thing to stand up. (Here the metal is unused and thus unbent.) The back of the card also has Pompeian urn ornamentation and the date "1930". The (truncated) booklet: 32 pp. The center of the booklet is a two page photo of a hotel grounds at Vittel. The other pages are given over to monthly calendars and facing pages with cartoonish drawings of literary giants (Hugo, de Musset, Ronsard) and captions of quotes from them in which they refer to Vittel waters. A few pages in the front and back discuss the Vittel waters and their curative properties. Also included is the original envelope used to send the promotional calendar. (Inventory #: 003908)