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Title: Re: Interesting French insert that came with a steam drive model
Post by: Stoker on December 14, 2024, 11:59:24 am

I totally love getting "Bonus" ephemera material, such as that wonderfully cool workshop sheet!

Title: Interesting French insert that came with a steam drive model
Post by: Timvrip on December 14, 2024, 09:41:18 am

Here a couple of pictures of an insert that came with an old steam drive model I recently bought.
The one I bought is the "scie circulaire" or table saw in English.
On the front is "Le Jouet Technique" or The Technical Toy and "Marque & Modèles Dèposès" or Registered trademark & models.

(https://www.officeofsteamforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fvanriper.us%2Fjouet.jpg&hash=aa91d7e76b255dd6942387d5b3f88768368e81eb)

On the backside is where it gets interesting. Although I find the prices hard to believe, considering these drive models were likely made around 1960. Also, that's assuming "frs" stands for French francs, which were worth around 20 cents in 1960. So, that would make the original price of the scie circulaire, which is listed at 320 francs to be $64. I don't think that's right. That would be a week's ages for a worker back then. I think the price was likely about 1/10th of that. Anyway, here is what is typed on the reverse of the insert. I'll let you do your own translations.

(https://www.officeofsteamforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fvanriper.us%2Fjouet2.jpg&hash=51379ed7b6331ccb6b3dd4062e7f73648cb3e1ed)

Steam on!