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Pan Maltine and Chaussures Baptiste

Pan Maltine

1933  Two handbills of La Fontaine fables illustrated by M. Lemainque: 2P and "Le Gland et la Citrouille."  5⅜" x 7⅜".  Printed by Louis Bellenand et Fils, Fontenay-aux-Rises,  Advertisement on verso.  €2.59 each from la fee chinette through Ebay, Sept., '22.

Dragees are candy-like.  Would we call them "dietary supplements" now, 90 years later?  Both of Lemainque's illustrations are pointed and engaging.  The human pots are fun!  There is a clever printer's seal at the top right of the image side of the handbill. 

 

Chaussures Baptiste

1933?  Three advertising handbills from Chaussures Baptiste, a shoestore in Poitiers.  Unknown source.  

Two of these three show Lemainque's typical style, known from the similar handbills for Pan Maltine and also in Lemainque's duochrome illustrations for Gordinne in 1937-38.  I am unsure of the identity of the artist "G. Ri"(?) of the third handbill.  It has lovely use of color.