Card of the Day - 2023-09-06

La Ville de Paris Post of the World
Anyone know who issued this, or the name of the set ?

It was sent in by a reader, who would like to know those things. 

All I have managed to guess at is that it was some kind of department store, because some other cards I have located say confections and toiles, which are sweets and textiles respectively. You can also find the address given as 170 or 174 Rue Montmartre, but the latter says that was the former Hotel des Messageries Francaises, which is a kind of link to our theme as a Messagerie is either a courier or shipping service. 

The text on our card offers 1. storage of your shopping, 2. fabric samples, 3. different catalogues. The idea of catalogues have now been superseded by the internet, which I do not find so interesting, for you cannot look at leisure, and no longer can the joys of thumbing through a seed catalogue and makng notes on every page occupy an entire winter.