REIMS (Marne) - Louis PECHENARD-WARY (1872-1959, Reims sculptor, collaborator and son-in-law of the sculptor Joseph Wary, to whom we owe many ornamental creations in Reims; he also owned a funeral monument business) / Commercial archives from the 1910s: 93 invoices and commercial letters, all with letterheads, from various regions of France and abroad (Belgium, Alexandria, Carrara, Leipzig, Czechoslovakia) concerning the supply of marble, rough stone, granite, blue stone (petit granit), molding plaster, earthenware, varnish, filasse, aluminum, bronzes (stars, rosettes, Maltese crosses), wine, religious articles, staff, etc.

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