A yellow hand holding a tin of Geroba tablets as a remedy for coughs, colds, sore throat etc. Colour lithograph after E. Hauri, 1936.

  • Hauri, Edi, 1911-1988.
Date:
[1936]
Reference:
689521i
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Description

Georg Roth was a Basel rival of Gaba AG in making liquorice-based products (tablets, pastilles, tea) to ease respiratory complaints: see Markenschutz no. 30 (Urteil der I Zivilabteilung vom 26 April 1932 i. S. Roth gegen Aktiengesellschaft Gaba), Schweizerisches Bundesgericht p. 178 (unreferenced collection of printed case-law on the Deutsches Fallrecht (DFR) website, accessed 2010)

Publication/Creation

[Basel] : [Georg Roth], [1936] (Basel : Art. Institut Grafica A.G.)

Physical description

1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 126.5 x 90.3 cm

Contributors

Lettering

Geroba. Georg Roth Basel. Tabletten gegen Katarrh, Husten, Heiserkeit. Contre la toux. Edi Hauri. The tin bears indications in German and French, and in the centre a grey dragon with the monogram GR (evidently the trademark of Georg Roth)

References note

Bruno Margadant, Das schweizer Plakat, Basel 1983, p. 211, no. 433 (German language version)

Reference

Wellcome Collection 689521i

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