Does anybody have any information on this poster? Looks like it says AUC COUCETT. At the bottom in small it says: Afeiches Americaines. CH lEVY 10 Rue Martel Paris. On the back a sticker reads: Creation Exclusive Custom Made Expressly for RIEND RESTAURANT LTEE(end may be cut off) #4 AFFICHE “Champion monocycliste”. Then a logo with a unicorn that says ARTISTICA and in tiny print underneath it says Montreal.
See, I TOLD you guys all this stuff has been done 100 years ago…
There was a similar poster (same image but different printing) in the Jenack home when I lived there in the 80s. Auc Coucett was a famous Vaudeville performer around the turn of the century. He and others like him did cycling acts with all sorts of ideas that were probably more or less original at that time. Some of it is stuff that still isn’t being reproduced today. Like that handlebar-drag down the steps. Can you say endo?
