Museum number:

APM 29.182b

Subcollection:

labels and tobacco wrappers

Title:

cigarette box

Keyword:

mosque, texts, "APIKIAN"

Description:

Sigarettendoosetiket van papier met liggende rechthoekige vorm aan de voorzijde bedrukt in paars en goudkleur met centraal in lijst schuins "HIGH APIKIAN CLASS", linksboven op Egyptisch gebouw met drie koepels en halve maan op tekstbord "APIKIAN", rechts waarschuwingstekst "CAUTION! IT HAVING COME TO OUR KNOWLEDGE THAT CERTAIN UNSCRUPULOUS FIRMS IN CAIRO AND ELSEWHERE ARE MANUFACTURING AND SELLING CIGARETTES WITH A SIMILAR NAME TO OURS AND IN BOXES BEARING COLOURABLE IMITATION OF OUR LABELS WITH A VIEW TO INDUCE THE PUBLIC TO BELIEVE THAT THEIR INFERIOR CIGARETTES ARE THOSE OF OUR WELLKNOWN BRANDS.", rechtsonder boodschap "WE HEREBY GIVE NOTICE THAT EACH BOX OF OUR CIGARETTES BEARS A FACSIMILE OF OUR SIGNATURE AS AT FOOT HERE OF AND THAT NAMES ARE GENUINE WITHOUT IT.". Keerzijde onbedrukt.

Date:

Period 1920 - 1930


Dimensions:

GeneralHeight2.76 in (7 cm)
Width4.69 in (11.9 cm)
Characteristics
Materialpaper
Techniqueprinted
Colourivory white
Finish inkt, paars
Traces of use ongebruikt
Production
ContinentAfrica
Region internationalNorth Africa
CountryEgypt
Region nationalCaïro (governorate)
TownCairo
Mark "APIKIAN" (gedrukt, zichtzijde)
Acquisition
Year 1992
Provenance Amsterdam, collectie Dick Veenstra, c. 1985-1992

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