CIGARETTE BOX AND CIGARETTE, ARTILLERY BRAND
Creator(s): Unknown (Artist) , Dukat (Manufacturer) , MKhTI (Printer)
Currently in storage
About this object
Cigarette box is covered with printed paper. On hinged lid is a chromolithograph of a scene of a artillery battery being manned by three soldiers in World War II era Soviet army uniforms. The figures are dark against a red sky. The interior of the box has two leaves of thin paper to protect the cigarettes. Inside the box is a single loose cigarette that has been emptied of its tobacco.
- Object name:
- CIGARETTE BOX AND CIGARETTE, ARTILLERY BRAND
- Made from:
- Cardboard -- paper -- rice paper -- glue
- Made in:
- USSR: Moscow
- Date made:
- 1943
- Size:
- 2.2 x 12.2 x 10.2 cm (7/8 x 4 13/16 x 4 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 34.80
- Class:
- WOOD
- Signature marks:
- INSCRIPTION Artillereiskie Printed on front cover of box Trans: Artillery (adj.) [brand] inscription Dukat Moskva Printed on seal that once held box closed. Dukat was a large Moscow tobacco factory that produced a range of cigarettes with propagandistic or agitational covers. inscription Narkompishcheprom SSSR Glavtabak papirosy V.S. No. 1 "Artillereiskie" 25 sht. Printed on upper left corner, rear of box Trans: [Acronym for] People's Commissariat of the Food Industry of the USSR [Acronym for] Central Tobacco Trust Cigarettes Best Quality No. 1 Artillery [Brand] 25 pieces [i.e., 25 cigarettes in a pack] inscription Dukat Moskva Tab f-ka Dukat Printed on lower right corner, rear of box Dukat Moscow Tob(acco) Factory Dukat inscription L 12 X 1943 Printed in small type, lower left corner rear. This is the date (October 12, 1943) of the print order for the labels. inscription LIT PROM Printed on lower right corner, rear of box This is the name of the trust in which the printer was located.
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973