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Cafe Collas
One sheet
vintage French advertising poster for Café Collas, likely created in 1927. The poster is titled "Café Collas, Perles des Indes" (Pearls of India) and features an image of an Indian elephant transporting boxes of coffee.
Poster Details

Product: Café Collas coffee, described by the tagline, "Le Meilleur de Tous les Cafés" ("The Best of All Coffees").
Company: The advertisement was issued by the Compagnie des Antilles (Tours), a French company.
Artwork: The central image is a colorful, Art Deco-style illustration of a mahout riding a large elephant through the jungle. The elephant is carrying cases of coffee beans, symbolizing the exotic origins and importing of the product from India.
Artist: The specific illustrator remains largely anonymous, as was common for commercial posters of that era, but it was printed by the Atelier La Semeuse.
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Cafe Collas