In our report on Los Angeles Chinatown, we reported on 14 French  
toothbrushes (Down by the Station 1996:115-116).  None of them was your  Berniers.   
There were also 87 of Chinese manufacture.  The site  was occupied from 1880 
until 1933, but from our catalogue research,  French  imports predominated 
in 1898.
 
Roberta Greenwood, RPA