Awareness of the smoke tag collection

The composition of the smoke sign is a combination of brand and pattern. Collection of tobacco labels, often the most important thing is the brand and pattern. The design is beautifully designed to attract people to buy and appreciate. The brand is bizarre, which has aroused people's interest and collection.

In the collection, the quantity is one of the signs that determine the success of a collector. The same is true of smoke labels. It is not easy to collect thousands of smoke labels. In fact, these "ten thousand kinds" are not the thousands of brands and patterns, but the total number of cigarette labels of all different types of varieties.

The layout and variety of cigarette labels are very rich. Different brands become different varieties, and the same plate number is different. The so-called "layout" is in the same brand. Produce different styles of smoke labels. "Variety" is the summary of different layouts of cigarettes. Then, how many types of smoke tag layouts and how to distinguish them?

1, the number of cigarettes: The current popular is 20 sticks. However, there are actually l, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 15, 21, 24, 25, 30 Packs, 40 sticks, and 50 sticks. There are at least 10 different kinds of cigarettes from different packages. Most of the 5 packs below are gifted advertising cigarettes.

2. Packaging materials: sub-soft packaging, hard packaging (sub-packing and straight packaging), tin boxes, plastic boxes, iron listening, flat listening and so on. Soft and hard packaging as a paper distinction, the latter is an inseparable packaging physical. Some of the tin and iron-listed trademarks are directly printed on the top, and collectors regard it as a type of physical packaging.

3, the length of the cigarette: marked cigarette length is divided into 70S, 81S, 84S, 90S, 94S, 100S, 120S and so on. Most cigarette labels do not indicate the length of the cigarette, and more are the unlabeled layouts.

4, registered logo: Note, registered trademark, R. Different designs together. There are four types of circled R meters.

5. The appearance of the filter: Most of the cigarettes in China before the 1970s had no filter. Once they appeared, they were filled with filter words. Some new designs of cigarette labels now have not been marked due to the length of appearance and the popularity of filters.

6. Types of cigarettes: flue-cured tobacco, mixed-type, flavored, cigar-type, etc. According to the type of cigarette, there is no different type of brand name in general, but there are also a few types that have both a type of flue-cured tobacco and a type of blend.

7, with coke note: tar content is high, medium and low. Now increase the height of more than 25 mg, in the 15 to 25 mg, the amount of smoke below 15 mg nicotine marked. From 1998 onwards, the high, medium, and low tar content will be replaced by scientifically more milligrams. In fact, different tar content and smoke nicotine amount exist on the same brand name.

8, annotations of the epigram: Smoking is harmful to health. Our country has been formally stipulated on the tobacco label by China Tobacco since 1990. From 1976, foreign countries began to label aphorisms. Since 1986, some manufacturers in China began to raise their names. They are now unified into six words “smoking is harmful to health”. The 1991 Law of the People's Republic of China on Tobacco Monopoly stipulated this practice by law.

9. Preparation of Barcodes: China formally joined the International Code Association in April 1991, and stipulated that from 1992 onwards, all exported cigarettes and high quality cigarettes above the provincial level must have bar codes on their trademarks. China's tobacco label bar code is 13 Arab, the first 690 represents the country, 1028 represents China Tobacco, the latter six digits represent the manufacturer and its product variety, eight concise barcodes also exist. Barcodes are generally black, but bar codes can also be printed in other colors. If the existence of different colors is allowed, the bar code layout is greatly "rich". The background color of the current barcode is not the same, there is a white background, gold, red or directly printed on the background of the screen.

10. Change in the name of the factory: From the past 100 years since the early days of cigarette labels, as the years have changed, there may be replacement of a large number of factory names on the same brand name. Early-Smoke Tobacco Factory Co., Ltd., public-private partnership in the early years after the founding of the PRC, local state-owned, state-owned, China Tobacco Company, branch, tobacco factory in the establishment of the China Tobacco Corporation in the 1960s, as well as the current joint-venture, distribution, supervision, local The names of the provinces and countries that were added before the group company and the company name. A change in the name of a factory name on a cigarette label actually reflects the changes in the system and business model, and the resulting layout change of the factory name.

11. Text Intervention: The involvement of text in cigarette labels has a long history. The words “variety” on the cigarette label mainly include slogans, advertisements, inscriptions, quotations, commemorative texts, and explanations. This type of textual intervention has become a special means of recording history. The evolution of the "Old Knife" brand of the "Shanghai Tobacco Industry" paper in 1996, and the three different words appearing on the cigarette labels produced by Shanghai Tobacco Company, is a typical explanatory format. Among them, the commemorative text has become a popular collection of commemorative smoke labels.

12, the deployment of color: In addition to complete sets of cigarette labels, the actual existence of different colors of the same brand of cigarette labels. In the collection of cigarette labels, color labels are called color labels. It should be noted that some “color labels” are not “commodity labels” but are “design labels” for design selection at the time of manufacturer's design. The multi-colored smoke labels after the stereotyped production are the true “color labels”.

13. Differences between editions: As with stamps, printed in different printing units, there are differences in fonts, colors, and printing units. Collection of different editions of the inscription must be carefully identified, and used cigarettes are often not easily noticeable when the version is being packaged.

14, the existence of wrong version: the actual error in the design of the smoke mark and the co-existence of the smoke mark has been corrected. A cigarette factory had mistaken the 2500th anniversary of the construction of Suzhou on the label of “Suzhou” cigarettes for the 3,500th anniversary.

15. Changes in fonts: Fonts range from simple to abbreviated, from phonetic alphabets to phonetic or pinyin. At present, there are also traditional Chinese characters or English. The change of fonts has also changed with the changes of the times. Currently, the typefaces that exist on some cigarette labels do not meet the text specification requirements.

16, the pattern of changes: With the development of the times, the pattern changes with the same brand is a frequent occurrence. For example, the "Shanghai" brand cigarette mark pattern has changed several times. The unchanged brand name and pattern changes reflect the social development and progress from one aspect.

17. Design of export: In order to improve its competitiveness in the international arena, the export of cigarettes in China has formed an important part of foreign trade and foreign exchange, and its cigarettes are mostly designed in English. This type of cigarette is called the export standard by the collectors.

18, test sale of the product: in the absence of the official name of the brand name, or tentative test brand name in the test of cigarettes, test marketing, evaluation, trial production, trial products or by number.

19. Production of complete sets: The production of complete sets of smoke labels is the development of the common theme of different versions of the same brand. Since it can form a system, it becomes a set of labels with different patterns ×1. If there are different layouts, then the number of sets will be the actual number of sets of the number. The more layouts, the more difficult the collection of the set of labels, the higher the interest in the collection.

20, special needs: the smoke on the common large-scale special, hardcover, advanced, quality, best products, Need for, etc., and some add security labels, manufacturers are specific to the needs of the product. The existence of this layout requires a long-term collection process to be compared.

21. Trademark transfer: If the brand number is not changed, even the pattern does not change, and the change of the factory name occurs, this may exist in the transfer of the trademark, purchase the trademark naming rights and completely transfer to the other manufacturers, or share a factory for historical reasons. Brand name. If the “Beautiful” brand's late “Yanhe Pagoda” pattern was transferred from the Huacheng Tobacco Factory to the Nanchang Cigarette Factory, its pattern remained unchanged and the brand name was changed to “Magnificent”. The well-known "big front door" is jointly used by several factories in Shanghai, Qingdao and Tianjin.

Looking at the changes in the format of cigarettes, it is indeed a rich and colorful one hundred years. In the early days of cigarette labels, only a complete picture can be formed from five aspects: brand name, pattern, name, count, and English. Today, a complete smoke sign screen, plus at least smoke, tar, smoke nicotine amount, bar code, registered trademarks, English Pinyin, smoking harmful warnings and many other aspects of the content.

The production and change of tobacco label layout has become an important part of the collection of cigarette labels. From the layout of cigarette labels, we can combine the production of brand names, changes in pattern design, introduction and analysis of texts, tobacco product technology, sales, packaging regulations, changes in the name of the plant, as well as fonts, printing, etc. The general appearance appeared. Because there is no detailed catalogue and chronological record of the cigarette label, and no record of changes in the layout of the cigarette label, it has brought difficulties to the research and organization of cigarette labels. In fact, as long as you master the changes in the format of cigarettes, it is not difficult to determine the age and characteristics of cigarettes.

A careful comparison of cigarette labels is often expected to find them different. Layout studies are actually a great pleasure in collections. Many cigarettes with different layouts were found in the controls. Once discovered, the number increased. In the course of the cigarette labeling process, the author discovered that the cigarette label with a long period of time has more layouts. According to the above analysis, the “mark” on the smoke label is marked on the table, and the difference of the same brand is clear.

The cigarette label reflects the history of the tobacco industry from one side. It is expected that more varieties of tobacco labels will be discovered by conducting comparative research on the layout of cigarette labels. This is also one of the sources from which smoker lovers gain more quantity, fun, and even more expertise in the collection of cigarette labels.