Early invoice for stereoscopes

Details

Orig­i­nal com­mer­cial invoice issued by Fruchi­er Tou­s­saint, a Parisian man­u­fac­tur­er of stere­o­scopes, dat­ed 1873. The print­ed let­ter­head adver­tis­es the com­pa­ny’s pro­duc­tion of stere­o­scopes en tous gen­res, mon­o­cles and albums, while the hand­writ­ten entries record the sale of sev­er­al stere­o­scopes and the cor­re­spond­ing prices, includ­ing a trade dis­count. The stere­o­scopes are iden­ti­fied by mod­el num­bers, sug­gest­ing that they were like­ly list­ed in a cat­a­logue, although no cat­a­logue by Fruchi­er Tou­s­saint has yet been identified.

Historical Context

Fruchi­er & Tou­s­saint was a man­u­fac­tur­er of stere­o­scopes. The com­pa­ny patent­ed in 1866 a hand-held stere­o­scope with a rack-and-pin­ion focus­ing mech­a­nism. In 1873, Léopold Lévy joined the company.
Tou­s­saint and Lévy left the firm in 1879, after which Fruchi­er con­tin­ued the busi­ness with a new part­ner under the name Fruchi­er & Pottier.
(from: Com­pendi­um of Stereoscopes)

Period

Publisher/Seller

Fruchi­er Toussaint
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