PBA Galleries

2 items:

• Raymond Armsby. Typed Letter Signed on Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York stationery. San Francisco, May 20, 1954. 1pg. to Marquise Helene de Pins, Paris, France, forwarded to Monbrun. With original mailing envelope. About insuring her personal champagne collection.

• Philip N. Poulleys,  J.S.Contas Co. Boston, Mass., May 13, 1947. 2pp. Printed and handwritten Document Signed, recording a trademark for “Golden Gate California Zinfandel…scene of sunrise over hills of vineyards – winery set in center…farmer walking beside his donkey who is loaded with wine barrels.” With a copy of the multi-colored label.

Armsby was a San Francisco Bohemian Club socialite, on a first-name basis with Helene de Pins the French aristocrat who inherited Beaulieu Vineyards. He writes the Marquise: “…you desired only to insure the personal property stored in the Champagne Cellar for…$30,000…It is unfortunate…that the property was moved from San Francisco for storage in a building on which the Fire Rating Bureau had placed such a high premium rate…I suggest you look over your buildings at the Vineyards, indicate to me the one in which you wish to place the property… a building with a low fire rate…” Poulleys, by contrast, was a Greek immigrant who had no apparent connection to any California winery.