Clown Talk (c.1905)
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Vintage photographic postcard, c.1905, uncirculated, divided back, published by A. Bergeret & Cie, Nancy, France. © Casas-Rodríguez Collection, 2009. Some rights reserved. creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Comments
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As postcard collectors we are not particularly keen on illustrated or "fantasy" (posed in a studio setting) postcards. However, this precise image caught our eye because of the rather unusual theme, the balanced composition, but above all, because of the charm of the characters; their costumes, their shoes, those instruments, their hands and their general attitude. Yes, these clowns make us smile.
If there was one great publisher of fantasy and humoristic postcards in the golden age of french postcards that was Albert Bergeret. For his great imagination he has been known as the "Méliès of postcards". He was born in Gray, in Eastern France, in 1858. He began to learn about typography in the workshop next to his family's bookshop. In 1886 he arrived at Nancy where he worked with Royer, helping in the development of commercial phototype. In 1898, he established himself independently as "Phototypie A. Bergeret et Cie - Nancy", obtaining an immediate success. For 1905, we know that 90 million Bergeret postcards were printed, no less than a fifth of France's total annual production. He died in 1938.
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