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Cafés Meunier, Le Moulin, 1901

A windmill and two words, white on blue.

What

A poster for Cafés Meunier and their trademark Le Moulin, engraved by Martin & Lefebvre of Caen, 1901.

Why

A meunier is a miller, so the coffee's trademark is a mill.

Notice

The windmill is drawn in fine white lines on deep blue, and the lettering CAFÉS MEUNIER fills the right half in tall white capitals.

“A Normandy coffee roaster, in one colour.”

Format

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Sized to protect print quality — this scan supports sizes up to 27x41" cleanly.

Size

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Provenance

The Lost — mark extinguished

Country: France
Format: Poster (affiche)
Piece published: Cafés Meunier. Le Moulin (marque déposée), affiche, 1901
Source: Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica) · BnF btv1b9004966d

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Scan: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Gallica; public domain. Hosted on Wikimedia Commons.

Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (piece published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the piece’s own publication year, never a brand’s founding year. Cleared by registry on 2026-11-02. Published 1901, before the 1930 cutoff; maker unidentified; Commons reads Public domain with {{PD-France}} {{PD-Layout}} {{PD-US-expired}} {{PD-US-expired-text}} {{PD-old-assumed}} {{PD-old-assumed-text}} {{PD-old-assumed/core}} {{PD-old-warning-text}} {{SDC-PD-US}} {{SDC-PD-old}}. BnF Gallica scan: BnF asks for a licence for commercial reuse of its reproductions; flag for legal sign-off (the house already sells Gallica scans). Mark status dead is the registrar's reading of an old mark; no trademark search was run, so confirm before launch.

This brand was gone from the market. Everything sold here is the art, not the drink.