oberkampf twice declines purchase industrial (1 résultats)

No Binding. Etat : Very Good. Oberkampf, Émile (1787-1837, 1st baron, textile manufacturer at Jouy en Josas, son & heir of Christophe Oberkampf & politician). Two signed folded autograph letters to Messrs Hierle et Fils and André Amic, madder merchants from Avignon, dated: Jouy [-en-Josas], 7 December 1815 & 22 April 1816. 2 pages in 8vo; one folding; folding marks, remains of paper seals. Neatly penned replies to offers of industrial madder colourant powder by two Avignon suppliers on 30th November 1815 and 13th April 1816; both were declined, as sufficient quantities were still available at Émile Oberkampf sold his textile printing firm in 1822, serving as mayor of Jouy and then as a liber al politician in the Restoration parlement; he was ennobled 12 February 1820 and is buried in Pere Lachaise cemetery. In fresh condition. 1 cf. Alice Peeters, Les plantes tinctorales dans l économie du Vau cluse au xix siècle (1975), p48. Jouy. Émile Oberkampf, who had recently succeeded his famous father Christophe, on 4th October 1815. The family business was already in decline following the economic slump after the fall of Napoleon in June of the same year. Industrial madder was grown in Vaucluse since its introduction to France in 1756 by Jean Althen, an Armenian merchant from Isfahan; by 1802 there were already eleven madder mills operational in Vaucluse, by 1870 fifty mills produced sixty million kilos of colourant powder.