3 antique booklets Baker\'s Chocolate and Cocoa
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3 antique booklets Baker\'s Chocolate and Cocoa:
$40.00
This listing consists of 3 booklets advertisingBaker’s Chocolate, the oldest producer of chocolate in the U.S. The company began in 1764 and the name changed to Baker\'s in 1780.Theyare:
1.“Choice Recipes” measures 3 3/8” X 5 ¾”, Copyright 1901, 48 pages,photos 1-4.
2.“Chocolate and Cocoa Recipes and Home Made Candy Recipes” measures 4” X6 ½”, Copyright 1910, 64 pages, photos 5-8.The cover became detached as I was scanning.
3. “BestChocolate and Cocoa Recipes” measures 4 3/4” X 6 7/8”, Copyright 1931, photos9-12.
All 3 of the booklets are in good shape, fortheir age. They all feature images of LaBelle Chocolatiere, DasSchokoladenmädchen, the logo of thechocolate server, adopted in 1883. Ifound the story interesting and have included it below.
Das Schokoladenmädchen by Jean-Étienne Liotard, 1743-45
\"...There is a romance connected with thecharming Viennese girl who served as the model, which is well worth telling.One of the leading journals of Vienna has thrown some light an the Baltauf, orBaldauf, family to which the subject of Liotard\'s painting belonged. Anna, orAnnerl, as she was called by friends and relatives, was the daughter ofMelchior Baltauf, a knight, who was living in Vienna in 1760, when Liotard wasin that city making portraits of some members of the Austrian Court. It is notclear whether Anna was earning her living as a chocolate bearer at that time orwhether she posed as a society belle in that becoming costume; but, be that asit may, her beauty won the love of a princeof the Empire, whose name, Dietrichstein, is known now only because he marriedthe charming girl who was immortalized by a great artist. The marriage caused agreat deal of talk in Austrian society atthe time, and many different stories have been told about it. The prejudices ofcastehave always been very strong in Vienna, and a daughter of a knight,even if well-to-do, was not considered a suitable match for a member of thecourt. It is said that an the wedding day Anna invited the chocolate bearerswith whom she had worked or played, and in \"sportive joy at her ownelevation\" offered her hand to them saying, \" Behold! now that I am aprincess you may kiss my hand.\" She was probably about twenty years of agewhen the portrait was painted in 1760, and she lived until 1825..
3 antique booklets Baker\'s Chocolate and Cocoa:
$40.00