So lets start with why this is here - and that is because St. Sylvester was not only the patron saint of domestic or domesticated animals, but of stonemasons. I have not yet found out why, but I do know that in Chartres Cathedral in France there is a stained glass window called the St. Sylvester Window which shows stonemasons at work.
This card actually translates to "Life in Egypt in Ancient Times". And it is likely that they were making stone for pyramids, which were actually faced with large stone slabs to make them perfectly triangular. Now when I first wrote this, I had not spotted it, but there is a pyramid in the background of this card.
I have been having a bit of correspondence with a collector of these cards and they tell me the way the companies joined together is very interesting.
The Cailler was founded by Francois Louis Cailler in 1819, which. makes it the oldest chocolate in Switzerland, and also they were the first to give little thin paper stamps in with their chocolate, which were to be glued in albums, and that is how you usually find them. The premises they still use today were opened in 1898.
The Peter comes along in 1861 when a man called Daniel Peter bought one of the Cailler factories. He also falls in love with Fanny-Louise, François-Louis Cailler`s daughter, and the two were wed, in 1863. Daniel Peter has a really big claim to chocolate fame because he invented "milk" chocolate. However the solution that he needed to make it was supplied by none other than Heinrich "Henri" Nestle, who had solved that particular problem whilst making baby milk formula in the late 1860s.
The Kohler is added in 1911, at which point they became "Peter Cailler Kohler", and that was through a partnership between the son of the founder of another Swiss brand, Chocolate Kohler.
In 1929, the triumvirate was bought by Nestle, however he kept "Peter Cailler Kohler Nestle" right until 1951.