As de Trèfle

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As de Trèfle (Ace of Clubs) was a French maker of plates, film and printing paper from the early 20th century. MoMA has a number of postcards in its collection produced by the company.[1] Also at MoMA, Lee Ann Daffner stated in a note about Paris paper-maker Guilleminot that As de Trèfle paper was made by a mill owned by Grieshaber Frères & Company of Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, outside Paris.[2][3]

The company's products included Veritas plates and Indovir self-fixing printing paper in the 1920s[4] as well as 'As de Trèfle' and 'Aschrom' film.[5]

It seems very likely that this is the same company (given as Société Nouvelle 'As de Trèfle' produits photographiques at Collection Appareils) which sold some cameras in the 1950s.[6] Collection Appareils (in their page on the As Phot) gives the company address (or perhaps that of a lawyer or agent, since it is the address given for registering the camera models) as Rue de Maubeuge 71, Paris, close to the Gare du Nord.

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Notes

  1. Search results for 'As de Trèfle' at MoMA; postcard showing Parisian shops, restaurants and other small businesses, 1905-7.
  2. note about Guilleminot paper at MoMA.
  3. See also this label of a pack of 9x12 As de Trèfle plates posted at Flickr by Gilles Péris y Saborit.
  4. Advertisement for these two products and said to be dated 1927, offered for sale at Ebay as item 282793902146, May 2019.
  5. Advertising plate; 'Film As de Trèfle en vente ici' depicting a film box, which itself advertises 'Aschrom' on another side; sold at the 22nd Westlicht Photographica Auction, 24 November 2012. Dated by the auctioneer to 1930-40.
  6. As de Trèfle cameras at Collection Appareils

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