ECL-O.171-2017
Parts
Object number
ECL-O.171-2017
Object type
Identification
Title
Russian chocolate wrappers
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Description
8 diamond-shaped papers wrappers for chocolate bars (two duplicated)
Comments
The confectionery firm 'Georges Borman’ had been founded by Grigory Borman in St Petersburg in 1862; by the end of the century it was a household name in the Russian Empire and purveyor to the Tsar.
Other number
2027/34
Description
Content (description)
Collection of 8 photographically-illustrated unused chocolate wrappers for a chocolate called “Voennaia zhizn’” (“Military Life”) reproducing a photograph taken by the “Union” agency illustrating life in the Russian army: ‘At a sentry point’; ‘Target practice’; ‘Shooting from an aiming rest’; ‘Limbering a howitzer’; ‘Crossing a ford’; and ‘Gymnastics on the horizontal bars’.
Dimensions
height (actual size): 152mm
width (actual size): 228mm
width (actual size): 228mm
Production
Place
Russia
Date
c.1914
Note
Produced by the Russian firm Georges Borman in Petrograd.
History and association
Previous ownership
