Cigarette Cards's Cigarette Cards-Texture

Cigarette Cards can be divided into iron, glass, silk, brocade and paper according to texture and materials. Newspapers in Cigarette Cards have the largest circulation. Although the paper is thin, thick, good and bad, on the whole, its circulation accounts for more than 99% of the total circulation in Cigarette Cards. Cigarette Cards and other textures were not originally published. What can be passed down to this day is even rarer. Cigarette painting, because of its low cost and easy production, has an absolute advantage in total distribution. Early cigarette paintings were very thick, some as thick as 0,5mm, which was a veritable card. The products are getting thinner and thinner in the middle and late stages. This is related to the development of paper industry and the improvement of cigarette packaging. Among them, most of them are printed with Dorian and white cards.

As the picture shows, this kind of cigarette painting was produced one hundred years ago. No matter the characters, flowers or animals in the painting, they are colorful and lifelike so far. The gold and silver threads on the costumes are dazzling, which shows how excellent the printing technology was in those days.

In the 1920s, during the popularization of photography, Cigarette Cards developed by introducing photographic paper from abroad. Photos of movie stars, landscapes and feathered pets are printed directly on the Cigarette Cards, which are lifelike and pleasing to the eye, and are quite popular among people. Taking the "European places of interest" in the "Double Knife Brand" as an example, it shows the features of the Arc de Triomphe, Rome Square and Hyde Park a hundred years ago. Now it seems that it is not only a beautiful photographic work, but also has certain historical value.

This kind of Cigarette Cards can be roughly divided into two types, one is plain glazed and the other is matte, which is not much different from today's photo paper. From the back of this painting, we can see that the explanatory text and advertisements on the back are printed so clearly. It can be associated with the fact that the technology of mechanized continuous photosensitive, developing and developing at that time had reached a quite high level. Most of these cigarette paintings are monochrome in black and white, brown and ochre. Soon, some artificially colored "color photos" Cigarette Cards appeared. Most of them are based on the original with simple transparent watercolors. However, this kind of Cigarette Cards is mostly presented by foreign famous brand cigarettes. There is no such move in the products of domestic cigarette factories. This is also caused by the limitation of technology, equipment and cost.

In the 1930s, a canvas-like woven cigarette painting appeared in the market, which was a set of Cigarette Cards of the King and Queen of England produced by CARREASLIMITED. To commemorate King KingGearge V's accession to the throne, a full set of 48 pieces was issued, which was a sensation at the beginning of listing. Its technology, first of all, is to print colorful portraits on a special cardboard, and then flatten and polish them with a cloth board that imitates oil painting canvas, so the effect is very similar to oil painting. Make this Cigarette Cards special, like a small pocket oil painting. Quite cherished by collectors. Probably because the technology is complex and the cost is high, it is a flash in the pan and has not been popularized. However, this technology is the first of its kind in Europe. As shown in the picture, this is the oval iron Cigarette Cards collected by the author. Seen from the back, it looks like a piece of tin that can be embroidered. On the front is a famous lady Shu, with delicate facial features and gorgeous clothes, showing the elegant temperament of an English lady, charming demeanor and pleasant manners.

This Cigarette Cards was originally a decorative painting embedded in a high-end cigarette case. It comes from England a hundred years ago, and it is an ornament only found in the cigarettes of the royal court or dignitaries. This kind of high-grade cigarette is rare in China, and it is often used by foreign envoys and wealthy businessmen as a gift of transportation and etiquette. In 1950s, the Palace Museum held an exhibition of daily necessities of Empress Dowager Cixi's Palace. In the smoking area, this kind of cigarette box has been displayed. It's about the size of a jewelry box, and the tin tire is covered with silver, which is very gorgeous. There are cigarettes and a jade cigarette holder in the box, and the inner wall of the box cover is inlaid with two such Cigarette Cards. We can know the classification of cigarettes at that time. Among the best cigarettes, its packaging is luxurious, and even Cigarette Cards is different, just to meet the needs of high society for luxury goods.

At that time, the technology of printing iron had just been successfully developed, and it had not been widely used in the production of industrial products, but was adopted by tobacco merchants in Cigarette Cards for printing. On this silk fabric in the picture, fresh and delicate flowers are printed, and the condensation is delicate. It was issued by a tobacco factory in Europe at the beginning of last century. It is also one of the only silk Cigarette Cards in my collection. Look at its shading, dense satin, silky color, soft, warm and lovely. It's a gift in a cigarette box. Smokers can see this printed cloth at first sight when they open the cigarette case, covering the cigarette and emitting a faint fragrance. What a great enjoyment it is to enjoy! It not only shows the high quality of cigarettes, but also sets off the noble status and elegant demeanor of smokers.

On closer inspection, acid coatings and screen printing technology were just invented a hundred years ago and have not been applied to the printing and dyeing industry. Tobacco companies beat us to it, so screen printing technology came in handy in the laboratory. You see, after more than a dozen processes, such as color separation, multi-color, overprint and finishing, the printed picture is so lively, vivid and full of three-dimensional sense. This flower has been in full bloom for a hundred years and has not withered yet. It turned into a beautiful work of art! In the old literature, Mr. Jin Shoushen mentioned that there is a kind of glass Cigarette Cards. For years, I only heard what he said, but I didn't know his face. A few years ago, when I was wandering around the second-hand market in Liangmaying, I stumbled across this thing. So I bought it and now I publish it here to entertain readers.

This is a Japanese product of Guangxu for about twenty-five years. It's a gift attached to the hardcover Peacock brand cigarette. It is 50 mm long, 100 mm wide and 3 mm thick. The four corners are oval, which is a two-layer double-color glass painting. The lower layer is colorless and transparent, and the upper layer is a magenta peacock pattern that has been etched and frosted. At the top, the words "Peacock Brand" are written horizontally in Chinese, and PEACOCKCIGARETTES is written in English. Below is the company name. This craft is like the "old red" in the snuff bottle, exquisite, crystal clear and lovely. Showed the superb skills of Japanese glass craft in those days. Due to the fragile texture of glass products, only a few have been preserved so far. In addition, according to the literature, there are Cigarette Cards, Cigarette Cards, Cigarette Cards and Cigarette Cards.