Pinoy Chocophile: chocolate postcards

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Chocolate ads postcards: Clark and Chocolat Lombart

I asked permission to post here some of these chocolate ads postcards from a forum called - http://postcardcollector.org/forum/index.php?p=/discussion/1486#Item_12

According to wikipedia - The Clark Bar is a milk chocolate peanut butter bar that is similar to a Butterfinger or Crispy Crunch made by Cadbury in Canada. It is manufactured by the New England Confectionery Company (NECCO).

CHOCOLAT LOMBART

A french chocolate that first appeared in 1760 and the production was stopped on 1957.Believed to be the first chocolate company in France that existed ten years before Pelletier established in 1770.Chocolate Lombart was dubbed as "the largest factory of Paris"with address at 75 Avenue de Choisy. Among its famous clients was Madame Victoire, then the Duchess of Angouleme, also known as Madame Royale. In 1957, the company "Chocolat Lombart" was absorbed by the company chocolates Menier. (source - wikipedia).

More interesting images here - http://bit.ly/M2EO8h

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Chocolate Postcards

source - http://www.vintagepostcards.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=VPC&Product_Code=ADVEFO-F7406&Category_Code=ADVEFO

I only knew about the term deltiology few days back after attending a lecture by the Filipinas Stamp Collectors' Society Historical about historical places of Manila through postcards. I do postcrossing and was active in the past but not these days.

Deltiology (from Greek δελτίον, deltion, diminutive of δέλτος, deltos, "writing tablet, letter"; and -λογία, -logia) is the study and collection of postcards. Professor Randall Rhoades of Ashland, Ohio, coined a word in 1945 that became the accepted description of the study of picture postcards.[1][2] It took about 20 years for the name to appear in the dictionary the first time.[1] Compared to philately, the identification of a postcard's place and time of production can often be an impossible task because postcards, unlike stamps, are produced in a decentralised, unregulated manner. For this reason, some collectors choose to limit their acquisitions to cards by specific artists and publishers, or by time and location.(source - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deltiology). Postcards indeed are very interesting and significant historical artifacts.

So I thought why not collect some of these postcards about chocolate and blog about them here at the same time. The foto above is from an online site that sells vintage postcards.