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Paris 10 hand-colored antique postcards well framed, mounted - $45 (los angeles)
condition:
excellent
make / manufacturer:
E. Le Deley (ELD) Co. Paris
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The postcards are individually mounted and framed behind glass.
The views, most with horses and carriages and early automobiles, include classics like the Eiffel Tower, Champs-Élysées, Sacre-Cour, Pantheon, Louvre, and Notre Dame, but also views of the Trocadéro Palace, Avenue du Bois de Boulogne, the Borse or Stock Exchange, and the Town Hall.
Most postcards are marked “E L D” for the Parisian printing firm of E. Le Deley (E. L. D.), located at 73, rue Claude Bernard, founded by the photographer Ernest Louis Désiré le Deley (1859–1917). The company was a major publisher of heliotype, black-and-white postcards. After Le Deley’s death, the firm was run by his sons, but went bankrupt in 1930. Heliotype printing involved exposing a gelatin film under a negative, hardening it with chrome alum, and printing directly from it.
The Palais du Trocadéro existed in its original form from 1878 to 1936, when its demolition was called "a perfect vandalism." The palace's form was that of a large concert hall with two wings and two towers; its style a mixture of exotic and historical references, generally called 'Moorish' but with some Byzantine elements. The architect was Gabriel Davioud.