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Cusenier Inventeur

Here

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s an unusual shape knife with ivory handles advertising

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Cusenier

Inventeur

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. On the reverse is

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Oxygénée Verte

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(Oxygenated Green). The knife

was made in France and the master blade is marked J. CORNET.

Eugène Cusenier founded his distillery in 1857 in Ornans near Pontarlier, France.

The distillery produced absinthe until 1915 when it was outlawed. All absinthes

began to get a bad name in the late 1800s when the market became flooded with

absinthes having bad alcohol. In 1915 Cusenier went into production of a fruit

syrup and it was not until 1936 that the company produced the apéritif

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Ambassadeur

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.

Today Cusenier is owned by Pernod and is known for its apéritifs like

Ambassadeur and Mandarin.

One of the most popular Cusenier advertising

posters was created by Nicolas Tamagno in 1896.

It features the comedian Joseph-Francois Dailly

making his absinthe in a pub.