CIGAR LABELS (2 resultados)

Condición: Used - Very Good. . Three quarters cloth over marbled paper boards journal. 272 page album of pasted-in cigar labels, approximately from the 1930s-1970s, alphabetically arranged (with tabs). Thousands of bright, well preserved labels meticulously pasted into the journal creates quite visual history of cigar label graphics.

Two vols. Thick oblong elephant folio (24 x 20 x 6 in.) [206; 190 pp (misnumbered in ink manuscript on corners of each page)]. With 2375 chromolithograph and colour lithographed cigar labels, and cigar box labels, most printed with elaborate embossed & gilt borders, many with raised lettering & printing, ranging in size from 3.25 x 3.5 in. up to 12 x 18 in. (outer cigar box wrappers), 25 printer's proof sample pages -- mostly for Doubleday Books and Garden City Press largely 4to and Folio sized, 3 Lotos Club menus, 30 elaborately printed samples of Christmas wrap for Seagrams, Avon, Reader's Digest, & Revlon, 1 giant Seagrams Christmas promotional banner 5 ft. 9 in. x 4 ft. 3 in., several uncut proof sheets for Paul Jones and Philadelphia Gold Label Whiskey Labels, and even game box labels, many with extensive manuscript ink annotations indicating lithograph stone No., production run, and amount and date printed. Contemporary gray-green buckram over heavy boards, rounded leather reinforced corners, thick card stock leaves (some of the labels creased, w/ minor damage, some paper-clipped in multiple batches, tipped-in to each other, minor tears, some leaves cropped with samples taken out in which the stones were no longer, some labels removed, edgewear rubbing to covers), still a remarkable set of factory sample catalogues, including numerous in-house typed memos, printer's notes, and more. These colossal and striking factory sample catalogues for cigar box labels wonderfully display a chromolithographic advertising archive by one of the largest commercial printing firms in the United States from the Great Depression until the Kennedy Administration. Jacob A. Voice formed the Consolidated Lithographing Corporation around 1925 by merging Wm. Steiner & Sons Lithographers, the label producing division of American Lithographic Co. in 1929, as well as two other companies. So, by 1935 Voice's company was printing 6500 different labels for over 4000 million cigars. From the 1880s until the 1950s, cigar manufacturers were one of the most competitive and lucrative industries in the United States, and they employed raised lettering, embossing, and chromolithography of exceptional quality, using printing processes which remained largely unchanged until the mid-20th century when photo-mechanical colour printing largely replaced traditional lithography. These samples provide incredible visual historical records of the cigar-box labels appearing on the ends, top, and sides of boxes serving as vital advertising display material in cigar stores, and with the inner beautifully printed labels on the inside of the lid drawing the attention of the customers. In addition, these provide an invaluable cultural archive of the influence of cigars produced from Cuban, Puerto Rican, and Floridan tobaccos in the 20th century. Over 150 different cigar company labels are preserved in varying states, some with special holiday labels, others with different colour schemes for varying markets, and many over decades showing the changing tastes of the consumer and the advertising art. Included are such companies as Alcazar, Judge Wright, Ardova, Phillies, Stetson, Wabon, Faustino, Rubens, La Magnitaz, Treaty Bond (especially striking with images of Napoleon & Jefferson), Famous Players, White Owl, Juan de Fuca, White Heather, Hauptmann's, National Speaker -- Joe Cannon, Havana Ribbon, Villa Reina, Jockeys, Benson & Hedges, El Macco, La Palina, Paramount, Admiration -- E. Regensburg & Sons, Wm. Penn Panatelas, Socrates, Muriel, Gato, Donalda, Jose Arango, Van Dyck, Optimo, Dutch Masters, Moonshine Crooks, and many others. In addition, there are product labels included for White Rock Orange Soda, Ginger Ale, Cola, Root Beer, Yuban Coffee, Prest-of-Flex watch bracelets, Champion Prest-o-Slide Buckles, Flagstaff Jellys & Preserves, Rubinstein & Revlon Cosmetics, and much more. Consolidated also served as the colour printers for many of the Doubleday Books published in the 1950s including McCracken, Hoofs, Claws & Antlers; McCracken, Charles Russell; Dare Wright, Lonely Doll; Palazzo, Don Quixote, and many others. The beautifully printed Christmas wraps for cigar companies, liquor companies such as Seagrams, as well as Rubinstein, Avon, and Revlon are striking with colour, embossing, and gold work. The large Seagrams Christmas advertising Banner for 1954 at over 5 feet tall, is visually impressive and offers a superb example of mid-Century advertising artwork, and printing by Consolidated. The numerous memos, blue-lines, and proof sheets inserted throughout offer a historical record of how these labels, wraps, posters, and books were produced at the time. See: Rickards, Encyclopedia of Ephemera (2000), pp. 94-96; Twyman, A history of chromolithography, pp. 189-191.