August 2024 Premier Fine Art & Antiques Auction
August 27th, 2024
Below is just a small portion of the massive selection of high quality art & antiques to be featured in our upcoming August 27th, 2024 auction! This auction will span multiple genres of collectibles, including Fine Paintings & Art, Jewelry & Silver, Orientalia, Rare Glass & Lamps, Early & Victorian Furniture, Decoys, Carvings, Coin-Op, & MORE!
“VIN MARIANI” FRENCH TONIC WINE ADVERTISING SIGN.
05-872
Late 19th century. The graphics depict women dancing while pouring wine into a glass above the phrase “Popular French Tonic Wine”. The lower panel states “Finest Peruvian Coca” in bold uppercase letters. The lower panel extols “No Finer Restorative For Body and Brain”. NOTE: developed and concocted by the chemist Angelo Mariani, Bordeau Wine was mixed with Coca leaves which interacted with the alcohol content producing a distilled form of cocaine. The wine was filtered, bottled and sold by the inventor as Vin Mariani at 10% alcohol and 8% cocaine. It is purported that numerous dignitaries of the time were consumers of the wine before the French Government banned the product, but not before Mariani became a millionaire several times over. SIZE: 65″ h x 21″ w.
