France: Champagne Piper-Heidsieck Weighing Grapes Harvest Baskets Avize (Vintage PC 1910s)

vintage french advertising and industrial postcard for the famous champagne house "maison piper-heidsieck" in reims, champagne, numbered "5 - avize - la pesée des raisins avant de les mettre dans le pressoir. maison piper-heidsieck." (avize - weighing the grapes before putting them into the press).
the front shows a crisp black and white collotype view at the pressing house in avize (côte des blancs, marne), featuring cellar workers in aprons weighing large woven harvest baskets overflowing with freshly picked grapes on a platform scale, surrounded by rows of full baskets, while a seated clerk with a cigarette records the weights and supervisors look on. marked "pol" in the lower left corner.
the reverse is unused with a divided back and bears the vertical publisher imprint "edit. jacques freville, 22, rue payen à reims. loth photo."

size: ~ 9 x 14 cm (1 cm ~ 0.39 inch)

postally unused

condition: very good to excellent....please also refer to scans which show complete front and back of postcard

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