Indian Matron Menus

Today we have three different menus with nearly the same cover showing the painting of “An Indian Matron” by Nicholas de Grandmaison. We’ve previously seen a 1941 breakfast menu with this cover marked for the Dominion.

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Our first menu today is an a la carte breakfast menu with a table d’hôte insert that, like the earlier example, is dated 1941 and marked for the Dominion. At first glance, it has a cover identical to the previous one, but a close look reveals that, instead of three thin lines on either side of the painting and the words “An Indian Matron” in Bodoni ultra bold, this one has an Art Nouveauish border and the words are in a script typeface.

The menus I’ve seen with the Nouveauish borders are dated 1938 through 1943, while ones with the straight lines are dated 1939 through 1946. Of course, there may be earlier or later examples of each of these, but is seems likely that the Nouveauish borders came first. Why they used both borders with the same painting in the same year on the same train is unclear.

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Our second example is undated, though the interior design puts in the 1938 to 1945 era. The menu also uses straight lines and Bodoni, which isn’t much help for dating. Like the menu shown yesterday, it is in English on the left and French on the right. Unlike yesterday’s table d’hôte menu, this one is a la carte. It is possible that dinners were given a choice of both menus. But, if so, why not put the English table d’hôte and a la carte on one menu and the French on another?

Click image to download a 900-KB PDF of this menu.

The final menu is also undated, but prices are exactly the same as the 1941 menu above. Though both are breakfast menus, the a la carte items are slightly different. I have another item that I’ll present in a few days that suggests the Indian Matron menus were first issued in 1941, so I suspect both of the undated menus presented today are also from 1941.


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