Eptinger Vintage Parrot Posters

All these vintage posters were made by Herbert Leupin (1916-1999) for the Swiss company Eptinger.

Herbert Leupin started as independant freelance graphic designer in 1938 and soon became one of the most important poster artists in Switzerland. In the late ´30s, his style was illustrative but soon, he became famous for his innovative humorous figures and his fresh and colourful style. His best posters tell small stories and translate the company‘s name into a picture. His innovative Object Posters for companies like Eptinger, Bata, Knie, Coca Cola and various publishers became world-famous and today some of them are rare collective items.

In many ways, Herbert Leupin was the leading figure in poster design in the fifties. Due to his wide range of styles and his creative humour, even his contemporaries saw him as one of the best graphic artist of the time. For some of the several hundred posters he created, he received important awards in Germany, Switzerland and the US such as the Medal Award of Art Directors Club in Chicago in 1960.

link: Eptinger Website

link: More Herbert Leupin posters

Eptinger - Pepita (blue), 1952

Pepita (Sombrero), 1955

Pepita, 1956

Pepita (Bicycle), 1958

Pepita, 1959

Pepita Grapefruit (boy and parrot), 1960

Pepita, 1960

Pepita grapefruit, 1961

Pepita - Le Vrai, 1963

Pepita (juggling parrot), 1966

Pepita (snowy peak), 1968

Pepita (drawing), 1973

1988 ca.

source. http://www.canmuseum.com/

Pete the Parrot Vintage Toy

Louis Marx and Company was an American toy manufacturer from 1919 to 1978. Its boxes were imprinted with the slogan, "One of the many Marx toys, have you all of them?"

'Pete the Parrot' is a Louis Marx battery operated tinplate and fabric covered talking , with re-recordable message tape, turning head, illuminated eyes, moving wings and tail, circa 1962, 18½in high.

link: Louis Marx and Company

link: Louis Marx

Hamburg-Amerika Linie poster

Artist: Albert Fuss (1889-1969)

A Hamburg-Amerika Linie poster advertising Winter cruises from November 1938 to February 1939.

Amor Schokoladen Poster

Chocolat Amor Poster, 1940 ca.

Made by the Swiss chocolate company Amor Schokoladen AG, Bern now closed.

Boldoflorine Parrot Papercraft

In the middle of the 1800 Pierre Fouché, original of Aude, established a bistrot in Houdan (in the Île-de-France region in north-central France). Fouché became later a wholesale merchant of wines and he soon started to make his own alcoholic drinks.

At the end of the Century the company was cultivating several hectares of absinth around Houdan and was distilling it too. After the prohibition of the absinth in 1915, the production was oriented toward the coltivation of medical plants and and the extraction of the pharmaceutical basic elements.

Doctor René-Paul Fouché (1893-1974), first chemist of the fmaily, tried to create new products without making an unfair competition with his clients, the pharmaceutical laboratories, and trying to sell them in the drugstores but for auto-medication.

One of the most famous products was the tisane Boldoflorine «the good tisane for the liver», that was invented in 1933 and that had a big success from the 30s to the 70s.

link: Tisanes Fouché
link: Image gallery of the Paul Fouché distillery
link: History of the Paul Fouché distillery (French)

A papercraft parrot to place on the top of the bottle.

Poll Parrot Shoes

A Scarlet Macaw parrot became the mascot for a line of children’s shoes known as Poll Parrot Shoes for boys and girls. The creator Paul Parrot once had a live parrot in the original shoe store in the 1920's, much to the delight of his young customers.   

In 1922, Paul Parrot sold his shoe business "Poll Parrot Shoes" to the International Shoe Company, which was already selling Red Goose and Weatherbird shoes. The shoes were designed for children and so sponsoring a children's radio show seemed like a good idea. In 1937, they launched a syndicated children's serial named "Cruise of the Poll Parrot". The show was sold in thirteen segment blocks, and three complete blocks exist today. The shows exponentially boosted shoe sales, helping International compete against the leader in children's shoes: Buster Brown.

 

link: Cruise Of The Poll Parrot

Poll Parrot Shoes Neon Sign

Large Hand Painted Poll Parrot Shoes Advertising Panels, ca. 1930's

These double sided vibrantly painted wood panels depict two life sized happy gnomes and the Poll Parrot mascot, the Scarlet Macaw. The reverse features the parrots and a storybook cottage.

Poll Parrot Shoes Wood Sidewalk Sign

 

Poll Parrot Shoes signs

A Poll Parrot Shoes giveaway coloring book

Merchandise ad- Poll Parrot Shoe Family, 1940s

MOBILGAS vintage illustration

Following the break-up of Standard Oil in 1911, the Standard Oil Company of New York, or Socony, was founded, along with 33 other successor companies. In 1920 the company registered the name "Mobiloil" as a trademark.

In 1931, Socony merged with Vacuum Oil to form Socony-Vacuum.

In 1955, Socony-Vacuum was renamed Socony Mobil Oil Company.

In 1963, it changed its trade name from "Mobilgas" to simply "Mobil," introducing a new logo. To celebrate its 100th anniversary in 1966, "Socony" was dropped from the corporate name.

link: MobilGas on Wikipedia
source: http://artskooldamage.blogspot.com/2009/11/7-illustrations-socony-vacuum.html

 1940s Mobilgas ads