Gloria Victis.
Brousse Firmin.
(Paris).
Reg: Paris Octobre 1893.
Made for the Russian market. Russian inscriptions.
Patent was for improved package or wrapper for cigarette papers.
Actual papers themselves purchased from English brand manufacture by T. H. Saunders & Co, London, who was a British paper-maker known especially for his watermarks, and also a philanthropist.
Firmin Brousse was also the great grandfather of the great Poet, Writer, Lyricist Singer and Musician, Boris Vian