Package omnibus 1936 : a reference book to everything to do with packaging / Creative Journals.

Date:
1936
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Description

"The first encyclopaedia of packaging" gives details of British goods packaging, its manufacture and advertising in 1936. Includes boxes, bags, bottles and tins. Many popular brands are shown as they would have appeared on the shop shelf along with many point of sale displays and some posters advertising them. Brands include: Suthex antiseptic ointment, Dettol, Ivory Snow, Lux and Catseye soap powder, Carter's Little Liver Pills (p. 44), Gibb's and Kolynos toothpaste, Brylcreem, Rose's lime Juice, Frank Cooper's 'Oxford' marmelade, Ty-Phoo Tea, Erasmic soap, Cuprinol, Bird's custard, Mickey Mouse, Tek and Perco ltd.'s toothbrushes, Izal toilet paper, Cutex and Yardley cosmetics, Player's cigarettes, Eno's Fruit Salt (point of sale : p. 174), Wright's Coal Tar Soap (exhibition display : p. 180), Culmark shaving brushes, Anchor butter, Nestlé's cheese, Lyons' cakes, Tate and Lyle sugar, Lifebuoy soap, Scott's Porage Oats, Terry's chocolates, Unecol yeast tablets, Phoenix aspirin tablets, Ke-Mint and Dex tooth powder, Bismag Ltd.'s 'Bisurated' magnesia tablets, 'Vakara' vegetable laxative, Barber's coffee, Steradent denture cleaner, Elastoplast and Band-Aid plasters and bandages and Ovaltine.

Publication/Creation

London : Creative Journals, 1936.

Physical description

300 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm

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