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Chocolaterie Ackermans/Alpha-Omega "Venus"

1920?    Three small – about 2½” x 1½” – cards advertising Chocolaterie Ackermans in Liège, Belgium.  Card designs taken from the Gallaher 100 series of cigarette cards.  $10 for the three cards from Bertrand Cocq, Calonne-Ricouart, France, Sept., ’20. And from Bertrand at the same time one card for $3 from Chocolaterie-Confiserie Alpha-Imega "Venus" in Paris.  Menin.

Fables are told in prose on the verso.  The verso mentions an album and the 100 card total of cards in the series. These three cards are, respectively, #5, #86, and #97 in the Gallaher series.