Before they were collector's items, these albums were everyday treasures. This Nestlé Album belongs to an era when people patiently collected images, carefully slipped into each page. Three worlds intertwine within it: Sports, Fairy Tales, and Explorations, offering a true panorama of the 1930s imagination. The bright red cover, with its black triangle and illustrations of a sailboat, a fairy, and a tennis racket, is a piece of period graphic design in itself. Inside, the pages tell another way of learning and dreaming. The Sports series unfolds with its chromolithograph portraits of champions. We find figures from French and international athletics of the 1930s, Ladoumègue, Lovelock, Beccali, alongside footballers of the era, Mattler, Thépot, Vandooren, Delmer. Faces that made European sports history, fixed on glossy paper for eternity. Its condition is that of an object that has aged with dignity. Worn cover, marked corners, handwritten pencil annotations on the title page, intact original spiral binding. Nothing unusual for a piece of this age, which retains all its visual strength and authenticity. An endearing object, halfway between a childhood memory and a testament to an era. It naturally finds its place in a collection of vintage advertising, sports history, or simply as a decorative item, displayed open on a desk or shelf.
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