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Pastilles Poncelet

1911 One two-color folded 1911 calendar card advertising Pastilles Poncelet. 3½" x almost 4½" folded and 3½" x a little more than 7" unfolded. €9 from Brie Comte Robert at the Paris Post Card Exhibition, Jan., '05.

This is a delightful, well-preserved card. The folded view is a traditional one of FC. Open the fold and you will find that the crow has not a cheese in his claw but a box of Poncelet cough drops. "I let go of the cheese the other day, but I am hanging on to my Poncelet cough drops!" The well-dressed fox weeps. This piece of ephemera has lasted wonderfully for almost one hundred years!