Armes des Villes de France
Series information :
- Issued by : Many different companies in France
- Date of issue : 1920s (?)
- Number of stamps/cards : 84
- Image variants : Not known, but many differences in texts on reverse
Introduction
This is a large series of trade cards issued in France, showing the coat of arms of cities, with a small city view. The cards were issued as blancs and could be printed by different companies and used as trade cards.
The series consisted of 84 cards with the arms and a view of the capital city of each département at the time.
The series have been issued by at least 15 companies, most based in the North of France, around 1920-25. Many companies used the reverse for advertising, but there are other series in which there is a description of the town as well.
The cards were most likely obtained by buying the product. I only have advertisement material of La Kabiline. This company issued a large poster (57 cm high, approx 1 m wide) in three parts, two parts with the (uncut) cards, the third one with advertisement in the middle. The reverse states that one could obtain the three parts to get the complete series. Unlike the normal cards of La Kabiline, the uncut cards on the poster do not have the advertisement on the reverse.
(click on images to enlarge)
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The middle part of the poster (part 2)
The left part of the poster (part 1)
The centre part of part 2
The text on the reverse
Cards issued
All cards can be seen here in the Félix Potin series, the only series of 84 that I have complete.
1 Agen
2 Albi
3 Alençon
4 Amiens
5 Angers
6 Angoulême
7 Annecy
8 Arras
9 Auch
10 Aurillac
11 Auxerre
12 Avignon
13 Bar-le-Duc
14 Beauvais
15 Belfort
16 Besançon
17 Blois
18 Bordeaux
19 Bourg-en-Bresse
20 Bourges
21 Caen
22 Cahors
23 Carcassonne
24 Châlons-sur-Marne
25 Chambéry
26 Chartres
27 Châteauroux
28 Chaumont
29 Clermont-Ferrand
30 Digne-les-Bains
31 Dijon
32 Épinal
33 Évreux
34 Foix
35 Gap
36 Grenoble
37 Guéret
38 Laon
39 La Rochelle
40 La Roche-sur-Yon
41 Laval
42 Le Mans
43 Le Puy-en-Velay
44 Lille
45 Limoges
46 Lons
47 Lyon
48 Macon
49 Marseille
50 Melun
51 Mende
52 Montauban
53 Mont-de-Marsan
54 Montpellier
55 Moulins
56 Nancy
57 Nantes
58 Nevers
59 Nice
60 Nîmes
61 Niort
62 Orléans
63 Paris
64 Pau
65 Périgueux
66 Perpignan
67 Poitiers
68 Privas
69 Quimper
70 Rennes
71 Rodez
72 Rouen
73 Saint-Brieuc
74 Saint-Étienne
75 Saint-Lô
76 Tarbes
77 Toulouse
78 Tours
79 Troyes
80 Tulle
81 Valence
82 Vannes
83 Versailles
84 Vesoul
Companies
In the table below the companies that are known to have issued these series are listed. Per company there is one example of front and reverse, as well as some minor company information. More images (when known) can be seen by clicking on the name of the company.
C. Beriot : cichory coffee, Lille
Casiez : cichory coffee, Cambrai
Dr. Franck : Anti-constipation pills (2 backs)
Image Gallery
Reverse type 1
Reverse type 2
Reverse type 3
Félix Potin : chocolate
Guérin Boutron : chocolate, Paris
Alcide Picard : éditeur, Paris
La Grande Trappe : chocolate
La Kabiline : fabric dyes
Joseph Lervilles : cichory coffee
Extract Picard : Grape concentrate
Bourgeois and Labbe : cichory coffee and tapioca, Cambrai
Cardon-Duverger (La Boulangerie) : cichory coffee, Ste-Olle-lez-Cambrai
Debauve & Gallais : Chocolates and tea, Paris
Protez-Delâtre : Chocolates and tea, Paris
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