Author: ANTWERPEN 1746 - Poster - Sale of Gunpowder for the hunt - Vente de la poudre à Giboyer :
Title: Original poster, in French, to advertise the exclusive sale of gunpowder and saltpetre ( for private hunters). Opening text : De Par Le Roy. BUREAU de la vente exclusive de la poudre à Giboyer et du Salpêtre....
Description: .: 0. Antwerpen, ( no printer - most probably widow of Petrus Jouret ), 1746, poster size 31 x 24,5 cm (margins of poster cut away), with a woodcut nead vignet ( Royal French coat of arms and woodcut initial ( 30 x 30 mm). The document is tipped on a large contemporary sheet measuring 51 x 37 cm. Provenance: From a large album of similar documents and legal broadsides collected and bound in by the Antwerp Jesuits in the 18th c. The albums were auctioned in Antwerp in 1996 ( Collection Prof. Walter Couvreur ). Subject: The printed poster was intended as a shop poster to indicate the physical place were the sale of gunpowder was to take place. When in 1746 the French troups under Maurice de Saxe invaded the Southern Netherlands ( Austrian war of Succession) the private use of guns and ammunition was severely restricted. The sale of gunpowder was a monopoly of the invading troups. The document refers to ordinances proclaimed by the ''Monseigneur l'Intendant de Flandres & des Armées du Roy'' from 14-07-1744 and 13-07-1746. Extremely rare document. .

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