In the collection, quantity is one of the signs of a collector's success in the mailroom. The same is true of cigarette labels. It is not easy to collect 10 thousand kinds of cigarette labels. In fact, this "ten thousand kinds" is not ten thousand kinds of brands and patterns, but the floorboard of the number of cigarette labels in all different formats.
The formats and types of cigarette labels are very rich. Different brands become different varieties, and different formats of the same brand are also different varieties. The so-called "format" means that different styles of cigarette labels are produced on the same version number. "Diversity" is a collection of cigarette labels in different formats. So, how many formats are there and how to distinguish them?
Number of cigarettes: 20 packs are popular at present. But there are actually 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 15, 2 1, 24, 25, 30, 40, 50. There are at least 10 cigarette labels on different packages. Most of the following five packs are complimentary advertising cigarettes.
Packaging materials: soft packaging, hard packaging (horizontal packaging and straight packaging), iron boxes, plastic boxes, tin cans, flat cans, etc. Soft and hard packaging is the difference between paper, and the latter is an inseparable packaging object. Some trademarks of tin boxes and cans are directly printed on them, and collectors regard them as a kind of collection of physical packaging.
Cigarette length: indicates that the cigarette length is divided into 70S, 8 1S, 84S, 90S, 94S, 100S, 120S, etc. Most cigarette labels do not indicate the length of cigarettes, and there are more formats without labels.
Registered logo: note, there are up to four different designs of registered trademark, R, circled R meter.
The appearance of filter tip: Before 1970s, there was no filter tip in cigarettes in China. Once they appear, the word filter will be added to cigarette labels. At present, some newly designed cigarette labels are not labeled because of the appearance length and the popularity of filters.
Cigarette types: flue-cured tobacco type, mixed type, fragrant type, cigar type and so on. According to the types of cigarettes, generally speaking, there are no different types of brand names, but there are also a few both flue-cured tobacco and mixed types.
Description of coke content: high, medium and low tar content. Now, the label of nicotine content in smoke has been added, which is higher than 25mg, with the middle between 15-25mg and lower than 15. From 1998, the expression of high, medium and low tar content will be replaced by mg more scientifically. In fact, smoke with different tar content and nicotine content exists in the same brand name.
Motto Note: Smoking is harmful to health. In China, starting from 1990, China Tobacco Corporation officially stipulated that cigarette labels should be marked. Foreign countries began to label aphorisms from 1976, and some domestic manufacturers began to add them from 1986. Now they are all unified as "smoking is harmful to health". 199 1 People's Republic of China (PRC) tobacco monopoly law stipulates this practice from the legal point of view.
Bar code compilation: China officially joined the International Association of Object Codes from April 199 1, and stipulated that all exported cigarettes and high-quality cigarettes above the provincial level must be marked with bar codes on their trademarks from June 1992. The bar code of cigarette labels in China is 13 Arabic numerals, the first 690 represents the country, 1028 represents China Tobacco Company, the last 6 digits represent the manufacturer and its product variety, and the rest are simple bar codes. Barcodes are generally black, but they can also be printed in other front colors. If different colors are allowed, the barcode format will be greatly enriched. At present, the background colors of bar codes are different, such as white background, gold background, red background or directly printed on the background color of pictures.
Change of factory name: From the early cigarette label to the present century, with the change of years, there may be a lot of changes in the factory name of the same brand. Joint-stock companies, public-private partnerships, local state-owned enterprises and state-owned enterprises in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the real names of China Tobacco Company, branches and cigarette factories when China Tobacco Company was established in the 1960s, and the names of joint ventures, distributors, producers, local group companies, provinces and countries before the current factory name. The change of factory name on a cigarette label actually reflects the change of system and management mode.
The intervention of words: The intervention of words in cigarette labels has a long history. The word "variety" on cigarettes mainly includes slogans, advertisements, inscriptions, quotations, commemorative words and explanations. This form of text intervention has become a special means of recording history. The evolution of "Laodao Brand" introduced by Shanghai Tobacco Industry No.2, 1996, and three different characters appearing on cigarette labels produced by Shanghai Tobacco Company are typical illustrative formats. Among them, commemorative words have become a hot topic to commemorate cigarette labels.
Color matching: In addition to complete sets of cigarette labels, there are actually cigarette labels of the same brand and different colors. In Yancun's collection, it is called a set of color varieties as a public standard. It should be noted that some "color labels" are not "commodity labels", but "design labels" used for sample selection when manufacturers design, and the multi-color cigarette labels packaged after production are the real "color labels".
The difference between stamps: Like stamps, when printing in different printing units, fonts and colors and printing units are different. Different versions of cigarette labels need to be carefully identified, and used cigarette labels are often the places where versions are posted when packaging, which is not easy to find.
The existence of wrong edition: the actual error in cigarette label design and the corrected cigarette label. A cigarette factory once mistook the 2500th anniversary of Suzhou as the 3500th anniversary on the cigarette label "Gusu".
Font change: the font changes from complex to simple, from non-pinyin letters to pinyin letters or pinyin letters. There are complex styles or English at present. The change of Chinese characters also changes with the change of year. At present, the complicated writing styles on some cigarette labels do not meet the requirements of Chinese characters.
Pattern change: With the development of the times, the pattern of the same brand changes frequently. For example, the label pattern of "Shanghai" brand cigarettes has been changed many times. The brand name remains unchanged, but the pattern has changed.