Eyquem (after PAL/Jean de Paleologu)

 

Christophe Adrien (Count) Regley de Koenigsegg

  1823 - 1903 (biography)

c. 1900  

watercolor 

5 5/8 x 4 1/8"  

not signed, as usual 

1 of 1 unique 

"d'apres PAL" in ink, on backing sheet, lower right 

ADEC 97c; Rennert IX 411 

white wove 

 

 

13232 

$400.00 

After the poster advertising the Eyquem Limograph, a do-it-yourself printing machine and very distant precursor to the photocopier. The subtitle loosely translates, "Print 3000 copies yourself without manipulation with the automatic ball[-bearing printer] Eyquem." Created around 1900 by French industrialist Maurice Eyquem, it was similar to the more well-known Gestetner cyclostyle, roatry duplicator that use waxed paper as the stencil. It was used to duplicate letters, flyers, small fanzines, and other ephemera that required wide distribution.