CENDRE-LESSIVE SAINT-MARC. (Bordeaux ) Domed enamelled plate/band. Very good condition, one chip upper right corner. 50 x 17.2 cm . "Enamel Ed. Jean The history of St Marc began in 1877, when a group of loggers founded "La Blanchisserie à vapeur de la Gironde", and it was in 1902 that the St Marc brand really came into being, when Raoul St Marc, the company's director, developed a washing powder made from Landes pine resin, which he called "Cendres de Lessive St Marc". (source: stmarc.fr)