Éditions Artistiques Stéréoscopiques was a publisher and seller of stereoviews from Paris. Little is known about the company. An undated catalog shows the location Avenue de Saint-Ouen 44[1], an invoice from 1929 lists the address Rue Louis Besquel 4[2]. The company sold stereoviews of war scenes in the formats 45 x 107mm and 6 x 13cm. It’s remarkable that the catalog explicitly states that it does not sell paper card stereoviews, because “glass alone gives the transparency which is essential to a realistic viewing experience”[1].
The stereoviews contain the abbreviation “EAS”. A wooden case with a hundred 45 x 107mm slides with the original invoice from 1929 contains only nine stereoviews with the abbreviation EAS[2], the rest of the slides are categorised as “Brentano’s”. It suggests that Éditions Artistiques Stéréoscopiques was a minor publisher that expanded its collection with purchased slides from another publisher or wholesaler, possibly from Stéréo-Éditions F. Meiller.
45x107mm glass stereoview published by EAS
45x107mm glass stereoview published by EAS
References
- Vues de Guerre, Éditions Artistiques Stéréoscopiques
- Wooden case with a hundred 45 x 107mm glass stereoviews with images of the First World War, a Unis France hand-held stereoscope and its original Éditions Artistiques Stéréoscopiques invoice from 7 February 1929, Collection André Ruiter No. 190