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Advertising Poster Freudenberg Boehringer Merchants Ceylon Elephants - Original vintage advertising poster for the Colombo Ceylon Branch of Freudenberg, Boehringer and Co. Export and Import Merchants featuring people being carried on howdahs on the backs of elephants draped in colourful red and gold ceremonial cloths with onlookers lining their path between the buildings below palm trees towering overhead, the image framed by a decorative red and green border, with the stylised title text above - Freudenberg, Boehringer und Co. Bremen - and below with the list of branch locations in Colombo (Ceylon) Madras (India) Harbin (Mandschuria) Hamburg and two Freudenberg, Boehringer and Co. logos with a sailing ship inside a red circle on both sides of a plain white box for information. Colombo is the largest city on the South East Asia island of Ceylon; now Sri Lanka. Freudenberg Group and Boehringer Ingelheim are separate, large German-based industrial and pharmaceutical companies, respectively. Historical records indicate a past association, such as the Freudenberg, Boehringer and Co. import/export merchant firm in Ceylon. Today, Freudenberg focuses on technology and manufacturing (including medical components), while Boehringer focuses on human/animal pharmaceuticalsGood condition, restored paper loss, minor browning on edges. Country of issue: Germany, designer: VD, size (cm): 49x32, year of printing: 1920s.