Antique Lime Fruit Cordial Label 🍋 1890s-1910s Gold Chromolithograph Art Nouveau Beverage Advertising tobacco_industry_artifact a desk corner

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since it carries no date or maker's mark

Age and authenticity are not abstract values here

🎈 Place unframed inside a glass display dome or apothecary jar alongside a few vintage wooden spools

Nautical and maritime collectors find the longship imagery irresistible

Antique Lime Fruit Cordial Label 🍋 1890s-1910s Gold Chromolithograph Art Nouveau Beverage Advertising tobacco_industry_artifact a desk cornerWhat Did a Bottle of "Non Alcoholic" Cordial Have to Prove Back at the Turn of the Century? Picture a druggist's counter or a general store shelf somewhere between the 1890s and the 1910s rows of glass bottles, most wearing plain paper wrappers, and then one that catches the light. Gold. Actual metallic shimmer, layered under a deep red field shaped like a heart, with lettering that curls and swoops like it was lifted off a poster in Paris. That's the