Toulouse Olympique Aviation Club membership card
Toulouse Olympique Aviation Club was founded on October 4, 1944, through a
merger of Toulouse Olympique XV and the Omnisport Aviation Club Toulousain. Since March 6, 1990, the club from the capital of France’s southern Occitanie region is known under the name Toulouse Olympique Aérospatiale Club (TOAC).
This membership card from 1945/1946, issued to Joseph Goulounes (1924–2001), features the club’s emblem with a winged dragon and a compass rose.
“Membre actif” is set in Elegant-Grotesk licht, an all-caps inline version of Stempel’s Futura follower, Elegant-Grotesk. The specific version likely is Universelles éclairées, a local copy sold by the Dutreix foundry in Limoges.
The plain sans has German roots as well: it’s Simplex, a variant of Berthold-Grotesk with a monocular a, produced by Fonderie Olive in Marseille.
The italic serif used for “Année” is Cheltenham with the alternate swash A, available in France from Fonderie Caslon. The wide grot used for the club’s name is yet unidentified.
