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CPA Xavier Sager 1908 Humor Cabinet Vintage Wagner No 556 PostcardThe description of this item has been automatically translated. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us.
Old humorous color postcard signed Xavier Sager, reference 556, representing a scene in offices paying 10 cents.
Several toilet doors are shown on the left, accompanied by onomatopoeia evoking the noises coming from the stalls. In the center, a man in a top hat speaks to the office attendant.
Printed legend:
“—Your client makes some strange music there!!
— Well M\'sieu, for 10 centimes we can\'t play you Wagner. »
On the wall are the inscriptions “Paying cabinets – 10 centimes” and “Côté des dames”.
Traveled card, with handwritten correspondence on the reverse. Postage by French stamp 5 centimes green Semeuse, affixed to the front and canceled.
Good general condition for the period, with patina of the paper, small traces of use and slight wear to the corners and edges.
3) Dating/interest
Card circulated on February 19, 1908, date clearly readable on the postmark on the back.
The stamp is a 5 centime green Semeuse cameo, Yvert & Tellier n°137, issue put on sale in March 1907.
Xavier Sager is an illustrator particularly associated with the golden age of the postcard. A recent sale devoted to his work describes him as active mainly in Paris between 1900 and 1914, with a significant production of humorous, gallant cards devoted to Parisian life. The Carnavalet Museum also keeps several of his maps from this period and identifies him as an illustrator.
This card is interesting for its scatological / ribald humor, its subject of paying public offices, the reference to Richard Wagner, Sager\'s signature and his franking on the front. The motif is much less banal than Sager\'s numerous cards devoted to elegant ladies or gallant scenes.
4) Keywords
Xavier Sager, CPA illustrator, old postcard, 1908, humor, ribald humor, scatological humor, paying toilets, public toilets, WC, lavatories, 10 centimes, Wagner, Richard Wagner, music, caricature, Belle Époque, Sager, illustrator, humorous card, Semeuse, 5 centimes, Yvert 137, n°556
Xavier Sager is an illustrator particularly associated with the golden age of the postcard. A recent sale devoted to his work describes him as active mainly in Paris between 1900 and 1914, with a significant production of humorous, gallant cards devoted to Parisian life. The Carnavalet Museum also keeps several of his maps from this period and identifies him as an illustrator. This card is interesting for its scatological / ribald humor, its subject of paying public offices, the reference to Richard Wagner, Sager\'s signature and his franking on the front. The motif is much less banal than Sager\'s numerous cards devoted to elegant ladies or gallant scenes. Xavier Sager, CPA illustrator, old postcard, 1908, humor, ribald humor, scatological humor, paying toilets, public toilets, WC, lavator
