Wonderful matchbox labels from around the world, some going back to the 1920s. Be sure to check out the full set on Flickr.
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I found you via a Marty Weil interview of Natasha Vargas-Cooper, and since I'm currently engaged in putting my art work on old commercial paper, I found the matchbox art to be sort of right up my alley. I discovered a whole other world of packaging art while taking photos of canning jars. It seems that in the Twenties and Thirties, the seals were called RUBBERS, and brand names such as Little Dorothy, Trojan & Climax were commonplace. Lots of colorful lithographic boxes (they came packaged a dozen to a box, about 3" X 3") but I'd already filled my camera card with eighty different canning jars. Next time I go back, I'm taking a hand-held scanner.
Posted by: Dave Dube | September 15, 2009 at 09:27 AM