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(Retail Advertising) The Biggest Shop. The Littlest Prices In…
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24-Nov-2019
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(Retail Advertising) The Biggest Shop. The Littlest Prices In Australia c1940s. Colour linocut, 75 x 100.5 cm. Linen-backed. Text continues 'Send for price list. Corner of Lygon and Grattan Streets, Carlton, Melbourne. Lake & Sons Printers, 289 Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, 39303. The poster is for the Borsari Emporium, which commenced business in Carlton in 1941. The shop specialised in a variety of goods including jewellery, household items, hunting equipment and imported Italian magazines and newspapers. It later became Borsari restaurant (1995). Nino Borsari was a gold medal winner in cycling for Italy at the 1934 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. He visited Australia that year to compete in a 1000 mile race organised as part of the centenary celebrations of European settlement of Victoria. He later settled in Melbourne and became a prominent figure in the sporting and cultural life of the Italian community.
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