PEACH - FLORENCE HORSEHAIR Cévennes horsehair... - Lot 319 - Briscadieu

Lot 319
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PEACH - FLORENCE HORSEHAIR Cévennes horsehair... - Lot 319 - Briscadieu
PEACH - FLORENCE HORSEHAIR Cévennes horsehair Alesia S.A. Alès (Gard). Advertising Catalogue with prices in 8° of 6ff. of this House of manufacture with a beautiful letter addressed to the Commander of Hom de Marien in Bayonne. Very complete of the 2 samples in their pocket mounted on a card with the hairs inside. Nice condition and presented in the postal envelope addressed to the Commandant de Marien. The Horsehair of Florence was produced from silkworms. Used mainly for surgery and fishing lines, the complex production, here in a silkworm nursery in the Cévennes, was swept away by the invention of nylon thread in the 1940s.
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