Invoice from Gustave Legler to... (1869)

NRA-L-000132 / 1869

Invoice from Gustave Legler to Scheurer for a barrel of cognac, December 23, 1869

Gustave Legler invoices Scheurer, a butcher in Le Locle, 60 francs for a returnable barrel containing thirty Neuchâtel pots of cognac, ordered through Kölleker and sent carriage paid through Rod. Sprunger.

Neruda Archives
NRA-L-000132

NRA-L-000132 image 1 showing a folded blue-paper address panel to a recipient at Le Locle, with a postage stamp, postal marks, a Gustave Legler handstamp, manuscript docketing, folds and paper losses. — **Image 1**Address panel and postal evidence.

NRA-L-000132 image 2 showing a blue printed Gustave Legler invoice and receipt from Couvet, with handwritten entries, signatures, folds, stains, seal evidence and a damaged lower-right corner. — **Image 2**Invoice, receipt and signature.

Archive Record

Identifier: NRA-L-000132
Date: 1869-12-23
Original date: Couvet, le 23 Décembre 1869
Type: Invoice
Language: French / fr
Sender: Gustave Legler
Recipient: Scheurer
Places: Couvet, Switzerland / Le Locle, Switzerland
Extent: 2 documentary sides: Documentary page 1; Documentary page 2; 2 digital images.
Signature: G. Legler
Citation: Neruda Archives, NRA-L-000132.

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Transcript and English translation

working scholarly aid

Documentary page 1

Original transcript

Monsieur Scheurer, boucher
Café
Locle

Notes

Postal marks:
COUVET / 23 / DEC / 69
LOCLE / 23 / DEC 69 / 7 S
10 HELVETIA 10 / 10 FRANCO 10
Gustave LEGLER / COUVET (Suisse)

Later annotations:
1869
Gustave Legler
f 60

Documentary page 1

English translation

Mr Scheurer, butcher
Café
Le Locle

Notes

Postal marks:
COUVET / 23 / DEC / 69
LOCLE / 23 / DEC 69 / 7 S
10 HELVETIA 10 / 10 FRANCO 10
Gustave LEGLER / COUVET (Suisse)

Later annotations:
1869
Gustave Legler
f 60

Documentary page 2

Original transcript

d'Extrait d'Absinthe
FABRIQUE
et Liqueurs fines
Vermouth
GUSTAVE LEGLER
COUVET
SUISSE.
Monsieur Scheurer boucher au Locle
J'ai l'avantage de vous remettre ci-dessous facture aux marchandises que vous avez bien
voulu me commettre par Mr Kölleker et que je vous expédie ce jour par l'entre-
mise de Rod. Sprunger franco
Veuillez me reconnaître de son montant de
Frs 60. -- Valeur à .................... mois ou au comptant sous ........... p % d'escompte.
Dévoué à vos ordres, je vous présente Monsieur mes salutations empressées.
G Legler
Facture
Lith. de Frères d'Arx à Olten
Couvet, le 23 Décembre 1869
G.L. N°
41013 | 1 baril de 30 Pots Ntel Cognac | f 2.- | 60. --
Baril à rendre

Notes

Later annotations:
pour acquit le 18 Mai
p. G. Legler
Fritz Kölleker

Documentary page 2

English translation

FACTORY
of Absinthe Extract, Fine Liqueurs and Vermouth
GUSTAVE LEGLER
COUVET, SWITZERLAND

Mr Scheurer, butcher in Le Locle

I have the pleasure of submitting below the invoice for the goods you kindly ordered from me through Mr Kölleker and which I am dispatching to you today, carriage paid, through Rod. Sprunger.
Please acknowledge the amount of 60 francs.
Devoted to your orders, I offer you, Sir, my earnest greetings.
G. Legler

Couvet, 23 December 1869
1 returnable barrel containing 30 Neuchâtel pots of cognac, at 2 francs: 60 francs.

[Receipt annotation:] Received payment, 18 May; for G. Legler, Fritz Kölleker.

Notes

Later annotations:
received payment on May 18
for G. Legler
Fritz Kölleker

Discovery Terms

Cognac
Absinthe manufacturers
Invoices
Barrels
Liqueur trade
Gustave Legler
Scheurer
Kölleker
Rod. Sprunger
Couvet
Le Locle

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