Lot n° 418

Two specimens relating to paper fabrication in France and Germany, [17th-18th c.?].

Estimation : 200 / 300
Adjudication : 250 €
Description
1. Large sheet of heavy handmade cardboard, c. 37 x 53 cm, folded as a bifolium wrapper. On the "front cover" the rectangular stamp of “Papier fin de Claude Chantemerle” (Auvergne). - 2. Large woodcut, c. 29 x 18,5 cm, showing a snake climbing a pillar, surrounded by roses. Advertisement of tissue paper (“Schlangenpapier”, “serpente”) from “Rö[?]emer, Schlangen Papier, Johan(n) Gottlieb Rötter”.
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