The BVReppucci collection (in fact, like any collector's compendium) contains both the "monumental" items as well as a simple sheet and, in between of those two extremes, books, booklets, magazines, etc. of the most varied sizes and importance. A good number of them (for example, documents) are filed in boxes or collective folders).
It's the case of two small French publications: a wine dealer catalog and a small weekly magazine, both published in the early 1930s; we bring the two to the fore to soften the uneasy times of the covid-19 pandemic, due to the simple, relaxed, if not playful, although suggestive character of the illustrations of the two publications.
The small catalog (14 x 18cm. - 20pp.) promotes the products of the dealer Caves Félix Potin. Félix Potin (1820-1871) was a successful French entrepreneur, the founder of a retail stores chain and a mass distributor that, even after his death, continued to expand and operated until 1958, when it was sold and years later, it was liquidated.
Each section of the catalog is decorated with vignettes that seek to express the nature of the advertised drinks.
Table Wine
Bordeaux
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