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344 - INDIA - BOMBAY – VOLKART Brothers Trading Company (Brothers Salomon and Johann Georg VOLKART, whose parent company was based in Switzerland, established themselves in Bombay in 1857, initially to trade in coffee) / Business letter, 1 ½ pages in-4 plus an address page with postmarks and stamps, signed on behalf of the Volkart brothers, Bombay, August 8, 1867, to Ernest IRROY in Reims: After detailing their accounts regarding the purchase of Champagne, the brothers comment that the wine they received is “heavily past its prime”—“It would be better to send us fresh wine, because above all we must strive to satisfy our customers”— “To find a dozen bottles in good condition, we sometimes have to open 4 to 5 cases.”
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INDIA - BOMBAY – VOLKART Brothers Trading Company (Brothers Salomon and Johann Georg VOLKART, whose parent company was based in Switzerland, established themselves in Bombay in 1857, initially to trade in coffee) / Business letter, 1 ½ pages in-4 plus an address page with postmarks and stamps, signed on behalf of the Volkart brothers, Bombay, August 8, 1867, to Ernest IRROY in Reims: After detailing their accounts regarding the purchase of Champagne, the brothers comment that the wine they received is “heavily past its prime”—“It would be better to send us fresh wine, because above all we must strive to satisfy our customers”— “To find a dozen bottles in good condition, we sometimes have to open 4 to 5 cases.”
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