Vintage poster Chinese cigarette ad print, acceptable condition, $7 shipping

Description: $7 flat shipping - USPS Ground Advantage (poster boxes cost more due to their dimensions and shape). $7 is less than half the cost of shipping. Poster is printed on heavyweight paper with metal strips on top and bottom. Size is approximately 20 inches wide by 30 inches long. Poster is likely a print, NOT an original. Original was probably a lithography backed with linen, since it was in the 1920s. The poster is a reprint of a 1920s cigarette ad in China. It shows a young Chinese mother and child on the beach - you would never think by the picture, that it's an ad for cigarettes. Based on a translation, the Chinese characters are the names of several cigarette companies in China in the 1920s (according to the internet, in the 1920s there were over 200 cigarette companies in China) - some of the ones shown on the poster include the Shanghai Eastern Cigarette Company, the Evergreen China Cigarette Company, and the Dalian Cigarette Company (Dalian is a major port city in China), and others. There are characters that weren’t recognized, so I don’t have anymore information about the characters. When I looked online, it appears that a lot of old Chinese cigarette companies used “calendar girls” to advertise cigarettes, sometimes with kids or pets. Based on an online search, there was a Chinese artist, Xie Xing Long, who painted pictures of calendar girls, similar to the one in this poster in the 1920s - 1930s for cigarette advertisements.

Price: 19.8 USD

Location: Salem, Oregon

End Time: 2025-01-18T09:21:11.000Z

Shipping Cost: 7 USD