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 | Jako
Anonymous
c. 1950
20 x 12cm
When you need your shoes as shiny as squeeky clean as this fella looks.... the only logical product seems to be Jako Boot Polish! |
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 | Vildo
Anonymous
c. 1950
20 x 12cm
This lass sure is happy she has here tube of water proofing for her canvas shoes. Even if she does seem to have misplaced her clothes....?! |
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 | York
Anonymous
c. 1950
13.5 x 20.5cm
Poor cod fish here is about to become a York Cod Fillet.... and he doesn’t look to happy about it! At least he knows he will be ‘la salaison parfaite’.... ‘salted to perfection’. |
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 | Persil Lave Plus Blanc
Anonymous
c. 1950
13 x 20cm
The whispering washer women know the secret to getting those grubby close clean. Persil of course! It ‘washes whiter’. |
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 | Persil Washing Line
Anonymous
c. 1950
13 x 20cm
Whether you are a colours man or a whites man, Persil Washing Powder has your laundry needs sorted. |
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 | Gaz Eau Chard
Anonymous
c. 1960
13.5 x 21cm
Gaz hot water.... making sure your little boys AND your dishes end up squeeky clean! |
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 | Alcool a Bruler
Anonymous
c. 1950
13.5 x 21cm
Alcool a Bruler.... also known as Methylated Spirits! A national product of France apparently. And isn’t this drumming fellow proud. |
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 | Tricosteril
Anonymous
c. 1950
13.5 x 21cm
Oh Achilles, do not despair! A Tricosteril bandaid will fix all your heel problems! Now why didn’t he think of that?? |
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 | Huile Lessieur
Anonymous
c. 1950
13.5 x 21cm
This chef is sure licking his lips over a bottle of Huile Lesieur Oil. And I know why he likes it.... it makes his food ‘taste even better’! |
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 | Marcel Avez
Anonymous
c. 1950
13.5 x 21cm
You can trust this rosy cheeked fella AND Marcel Avez for all your travel goods. Guaranteed for a year! |
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 | Lutti
Anonymous
c. 1950
13.5 x 20.5cm
Small girls and native Indians alike agree that Lutti Toffees are delicious. |
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 | Brochet
Anonymous
c. 1950
11 x 21cm
A small blotter advertising the famous ‘Pain d’Espices’ Gingerbread by the Brochet Brothers. Delicieux! |
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 | Jus de Raisin Challand
Anonymous
c.1930
13.5 x 21.5 cm
Grapes cure health! Drinking the ‘Jus de Raisin Challand’ will provide your diet with more riches than milk. A beautiful small format advertisement from the 1930s. |
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 | Lave Blanc
Anonymous
c.1950
20.5 x 13cm
With the laundry cleaner ‘Joan of Arc’ you will have no more spots on your nappies, drapes, robes etc. The whitest washing powder! Merci beaucoup Jeanne d’Arc! |
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 | Gringoire
Anonymous
c.1960
13.5 x 20.5cm
Gringoire ‘gingerbread, biscuits, sweets and honey’ from Pithiviers-en-Gatinais,north central France. ‘The land of honey’! Sounds delicious to me. |
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 | Chauffe-Eau Electrique
Jean Colin
c.1950
22.5 x 10.5cm
It is no longer the 1900s! No need to bathe in the tub with jug of cold water. TODAY the water heater is electric! Oh the technology! |
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 | Le Thermogene
Leonetto Cappiello
c.1940
13.5 x 21cm
An original small format vintage advertisement by the great artist, Leonetto Cappiello - there's nothing like a Thermogene heating pad to combat coughs, rheumatism and those sore joints? |
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