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Advertisement for Phosphatine Falières. Card features a color illustration of an art nouveau style woman selling oranges. To the left in a blank space is a poem by Maurice Vaucaire. Right of the poem is a Moorish woman merchant in Africa. The woman is tanned, wearing a blue cloth hat. She is standing in profile but facing us, holding an orange in her right hand. Her dress is red with a blue sash around her stomach. She has on some gold jewelry, and is carrying a basket of oranges on her back. The woman is standing barefoot outside in front of palm trees and a mountain with a yellow sky. Around the woman and poem is a border of red pillars with white flowers on the bottom and oranges on the top. On the back of the card is a border made of pumpkin vines and flowers, two pumpkins in the bottom left corner. Above the pumpkins stands a little girl with dark hair looking into a jar. Next to her is a small dark dog. All verso text and images in dark red coloring.
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