French Vintage Grocery List Board Commissions Ne Pas Oublier 29102612

French vintage grocery list board

A French vintage grocery list board -- known in French households as a liste de commissions -- this charming panel was designed to hang in the kitchen and serve as a permanent, reusable shopping reminder. Headed "Commissions / Ne pas oublier" (Errands / Do not forget), it carries two printed columns of everyday staples: beurre, cafe, pates, fromage on the left; banane, huile, papier toilette, shampoing and more on the right. The body is molded in cream-toned plastic, a material typical of French domestic accessories from the 1970s, and the mechanism relies on two vertical rows of notched sliders along each side edge, fitted with small dark red arrow indicators that the user slides up or down to flag whichever items are needed that week.

In mid-twentieth-century France, these reusable list boards were a practical fixture in the cuisine, sparing the household from scribbling on paper each time. The graphic layout -- two neat columns of printed text, the bold title arching across the rounded top, the satisfying click of each little arrow into its notch -- gives the piece an honest, functional appeal that fits equally well displayed on a kitchen shelf, propped against a tile backsplash, or hung on a farmhouse wall as a piece of retro French kitchenalia. The printed vocabulary also makes it an engaging conversation piece for French-language enthusiasts and Francophile collectors alike.

Condition and patina consistent with age. The cream ground shows light overall yellowing typical of vintage plastic, and minor surface marks are visible; the sliding indicator arrows are present and functional on both columns.

Approx. 6.7 in wide x 16.1 in high (17 x 41 cm).

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