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CIG014 - Edition 2,500
Red & White
Red or Black of course
That is if you enjoyed these cigarettes! 'Red & White' and 'Black & White'.
Manufactured by Marcovitch of Picadilly and first produced well over 100 years ago!
Well known in the 40's and 50's and around that time. Marcovitch's claim that the leaf used was more delicate and "near to nature" conditioning, more precise blending and more even filling, were all combined to give a much superior cigarette for the man who inhales.
Not the woman you will note, but the man! Originally Mr. Marcovitch commenced to make cigarettes in London.
He made them for manly dandies of the day and fillingly (is that a word?) he made them good. (fillingly is their word not ours).
Red & White in packs of 10s and 20s. Black & White was also packed in tins of 20.
Also produced CIG015 Black & White
Come on!
It's "FITTINGLY"!!! not fillingly.
I am a cigarette pack collector (>10.000 different packs, tins etc.)
and to me their graphic design was one of the best ever seen.
By the way I'm still looking for a standard 20 cigs cardboard box (not
king size or "magnum"): the only one I have is a little sqeezed
because I found it on the beach at Milano Marittima (Ravenna), in the
60's.
Never found again.
But I am collecting the more I can of this beautiful "smoking
silhouette".
I missed the 50 tin and a yellow cardboard box on ebay but I'll go on,
specially with the splendid australian boxes and tins.
Strangely but true they were made also by G. Philips: before or after
Marcovitch?
Greetings from Italy
Bruno Zappaterra
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