Framed Vintage 1960s French SEITA Matchboxes – La Fontaine's Fables Shadow Box
$85.00
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Framed Vintage 1960s French SEITA Matchboxes – La Fontaine's Fables Shadow Box
$85.00
A pair of original 1960s French matchboxes produced by SEITA (Service d'Exploitation Industrielle des Tabacs et des Allumettes), professionally mounted together inside a deep shadow-box frame.
Part of a mid-century series illustrating the classic fables of Jean de La Fontaine, the left box depicts "Le Lion et le Rat" (The Lion and the Rat), showing a caged lion with a small black mouse nibbling at the bars below. The right box illustrates "Le Rat et l'Huître" (The Rat and the Oyster), showing a grey rat inspecting an open oyster shell.
Both boxes retain their vibrant lithographed labels and textured side striker strips. Presented floating within a deep cream bevel-cut mat board, housed behind glass in a warm reddish-brown timber frame with a slender gold inner fillet.
Details & Condition:
- Origin: France (SEITA), circa 1960–1966
- Series: Les Fables de La Fontaine
- Presentation: Shadow-box framed behind glass in wood with gold inner trim
- Condition: Good vintage condition. Both matchboxes show light, authentic age-toning and minor edge wear consistent with 1960s paper ephemera, cleanly preserved inside a solid, well-sealed frame with minor surface marks to the wood.
- Measurements: 22cm x 17cm
