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Originally Posted by CJBianco

Oops! I looked more closely. It's the cover page of the catalog, brought to you by Gelle Freres! =) It looks like they may have been branching out into the beauty supply business, but were still marketing themselves primarily as a perfume and soap company.

You are forgetting something important in the French culture: LE PRESTIGE....

Looking better than "Barbers' supplies shop".... especially when one sells "luxury" perfumes...

Originally Posted by Karakoup1

You are forgetting something important in the French culture: LE PRESTIGE....

Looking better than "Barbers' supplies shop".... especially when one sells "luxury" perfumes...

That's true. I also found one old reference HERE that lists the chief products of various manufacturers for the convention at the time (1884), and it lists under the Gelle Freres name (p. 344): (1) Soaps, (2) Perfumery, and (3) Special Hygenic Glycerine Perfumery. (At least, I think that's what it's showing.)

Regardless, they market themselves [as seen in the magazine above] as perfumers and soap-makers.

But you may be right. Perhaps they started as a perfume/soap company and turned into a barber supply shop a few years later. I don't know. I can't say for sure. I wasn't there.

This is great information we're digging up!

Thanks,
Christopher