Showing posts with label packaging. Show all posts
Showing posts with label packaging. Show all posts

Vintage Razor Blades and Wrappers

I came across this collection of vintage razor blades in wrappers. They are mostly Swedish and I would guess they are mainly from the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s.

The hobby of collecting these I know nothing about, however I can imagine it was pretty popular once upon a time. Being an affordable household item with varying and often elaborate design it must have been much like collecting matchboxes/books, bottle caps or cheap stamps.

If anyone has information on the subject or can point to a place of information, let us know.

Vintage Razor Blades and Wrappers



Poster Art: Tigra


Poster - dated 1950 - for Belgian cigarette label (Royal) Tigra. From Vintage Poster.






Royal Tigre cigarette pack scans from the La Saga Cigarette site.

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Design: More Vintage Japanese Matchbox Labels


There's something special
about the graphic design of vintage Japanese matchboxes. These examples are from wackystuff's Flickr set called Cool Factor 5 (Matches).
Maraid has even more: japanese matchbox labels
Take a look at my old post too: Design: Vintage Japanese Matchbox Labels

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Design: Italian Pastille Box Wrappers




Italian candy producer
Leone has some great designs for their pastille box wrappers. The first one is absinthe flavor and is only one item in a range of products Leone makes with "the green fairy".
The "caffé" wrapper retro design made me think of the great Italian artist Fortunato Depero's brilliant advertising art.

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Ephemera: Photo, Film & Sound


Photo, Film & Sound Ephemera by Maraid on Flickr

Also check out the other great sets by Maraid - like the matchbox labels which I've posted about earlier and the newly added abandoned paper mill photos...

There is a blog too.


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Design: Vintage packaging

Visit Roadesidepicture's great photo collection of vintage consumer goods packages called Advertising.

Via the ever attentive Alessandro D'Agnano of FreeDance. Mille Grazie!

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