French TITANIC trading card

card

EPHEMERA
Chocolat Guerin-Boutron
paper
overall: 2 3/8 x 4 1/8 in.

A trading card issued by French chocolate company Chocolat Guerin-Boutron, with a colorful image of the TITANIC at sea. The caption gives the size of the ship, describes it as a merchant marine ship and then says "Coulé à son premier voyage"-- sunk on its first voyage. The back of the card describes the "superior quality" chocolate, gives the address of both their shop and their factory in Paris, and recommends their vanilla chocolate. This company issued hundreds of such trading cards, with all different kinds of images. This one is from their "Navigation" series which included 84 designs.


2020.39.7317

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